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Consultancy
After a lifetime of cruising, teaching, examining and skippering to high levels, I find I am often asked for guidance or an opinion. Sometimes this may be an 'expert opinion' to be used in a legal dispute, but often a private client merely wishes to save trouble and expense by tapping into my experience.
Consultations might be as short as two hours, or they can run into many days. I have worked with private individuals on yachts ancient, classic and ultra-modern, from 25 to 60 feet with rigs varying from gaff sloops to giant unstayed carbon aerorogs. I have also advised larger organisations such as US Sailing. Over the years, I have helped out over many unusual questions. Some of the more regular ones are:
| Litigation opinions on questions of seamanship. These have varied from minor injuries sustained in small open craft to precedent-setting issues relating to major ocean races |
| Choice of a design and sometimes a builder for a new cruising yacht |
| Seeing a client through the selection and purchase of a used boat |
| Entering the Yachtmaster scheme - how to set about the practical examination |
| Recurring boat handling problems and other challenges of general seamanship |
| Training professional yacht skippers and instructors |
| Cruise selection and planning |
| Gaff rig. How to use it, modify it, design it and generally extract the best from it |