Nigel Sharp
MARINE WRITER
and photographer
- 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 since 2018.
- 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 owns and races 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.
