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Some are purely leisure sailors, others are connected with the sea and their specific area in a professional way. Whatever their backgound, each of them is willing to help the cruising yachtsman get the best out of their stay in these waters and will be pleased to hear from visitors seeking advice. We don't have an HPP for every area yet - if you think you could help with either Southwold, the Crouch, the Roach, or the Thames, do please get in touch with us. A contact phone number and email address for each HPP at the time that ECP was published (January 2008) is included in the relevant chapters in the book; any recruited or changed since then will also appear here on this page. You can contact any of them on email by clicking on their name below. For privacy reasons we do not show phone numbers on the website - if you wish to phone an HPP whose details missed the publication of the book, please email the webmaster and we will get the number to you. LOWESTOFT Sarah
Hanna John
White Terry
Corner Alec
Moss Bernie
Hetherington Nigel
Harmer Martyn
Garnsey Paul
Woodhead
Peter
Fisher
Simon
Smedley
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With this second edition, we have enlisted the help of
'Honorary Port
Pilots'. They will help us to keep up to date with the latest information on
their areas, and are a vital element in the community of East Coast Pilot users.
Once
Sarah wanted to be a veterinary surgeon, but became a schoolteacher instead.
Born in Malvern and brought up in Whitby, she moved to Bungay 10 years ago, and
worked for a local marine services company at Lowestoft, before joining the
staff of the new Haven Marina. She took over as manager a couple of years ago
and is responsible also for the new Hamilton Dock Marina being built as we went
to Press in early 2008. When she gets the time, she sails a Sailfish 18.
Alec
is a member of Walton and Frinton YC, and represents the club on the Hamford Water
Management Committee. This group monitors such things as the silting up of the
upper channels and the accretions to Pye Sand and Stone Point, navigation in the
Backwaters, speed limits and safe mooring. He’s spearheading the setting-up of
a Backwaters dredging trust, with the aim of buying dredging equipment to
maintain these popular waterways. 
Since his appointment as Harbour Master at Brightlingsea in 2000, Bernie
Hetherington has gradually introduced better facilities for both local and
visiting yachtsmen. He’s also the Local Light Authority for the Colne. A
one-time outdoor education adviser to the county council, he ran a sail
training school and spent ten years skippering the Scout tall ships. He now
sails a rare Finsailer 30.
Paul
describes himself as an authentic East Coast mariner, who has owned various
types of sailing craft from an Eventide to a Colvic Watson motor-sailer. He is now the proud owner of
a historic Admiralty pinnace tug Collie,
working for the Maritime Volunteer Service. Paul has taught at the Greenwich
Maritime and City Yacht Schools of Navigation, and is chairman
of the Sailathon Society at the Greenwich Yacht Club. 
Peter learnt to
sail in his teens in a Mirror Dinghy built by his father. He crewed in other
boats, including Enterprises, Flying Fifteens and Sonatas before buying a Virgo
Voyager. He joined Queenborough Yacht Club in 1995 and shortly after purchased a
Westerly Griffon, Calviere Two. In her, he cruises the East Coast, and
across the Channel. Peter is now secretary to Queenborough YC, and
Engineering Advisor to the Queenborough All Tide Landing Management Committee.
He is the QYC representative to the Swale Regatta
Simon
Smedley was brought up in Whitstable and has sailed all his life. Introduced to
sailing by his parents, he says that almost every holiday as a child was spent
afloat! At Whitstable he sailed Mirrors, then Shearwaters, and graduated early
to the cruising life starting with a Silhouette II kept on a drying mooring off
Seasalter. He now runs Swale Marina at Conyer, where he keeps his current boat, Mistress
Quickly, a Moody 376.
Clive
Nicholls is the Bosun at the Royal Temple Yacht Club, which has a wonderful
position overlooking Ramsgate harbour. He says that boats have played a big part in
his life, having been messing about in them since the age of six - his
grandfather was a Navy diver and a Freeman of the River Medway. Clive has sailed
out of Ramsgate for about 18 years, and is a member of the racing crew aboard a
local X-332. He gets involved in delivery trips, does some cruising, and he's also
a crew member on Ramsgate's RNLI Trent lifeboat.