Nigel Sharp
MARINE WRITER
and photographer
Nigel Sharp

  • Many thousands of miles logged (including one Atlantic crossing) in a great variety of boats - from dinghies to small cruising boats to the J Class yacht Velsheda and the schooner Mariette.
  • Chairman of the Port of Falmouth Sailing Association 2018-2023.
  • Commodore of St Mawes Sailing Club 2011-2017.
  • Former Rear Commodore (Sailing) and Sailing Secretary of Lee-on-Solent Sailing Club.
  • Owner of Songbird, a Contessa 32.
  • Former chairman of a syndicate which owned and raced an 1898 Falmouth Working Boat.
  • Volunteer skipper with the Rona Sailing Project (formerly London Sailing Project), the sail training organisation based on the Hamble.
  • RYA Commercially Endorsed Yachtmaster.
  • RYA Regional Race Officer.
  • Member of the Yachting Journalists' Association.
  • Committee Member of the Association of Yachting Historians.
  • Date of birth 22nd April 1954.
Merlin - Pilot Cutter Built by Cockwells
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