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Honorary Port Pilots
With the second edition of ECP, we enlisted the help of 'Honorary Port Pilots'. They 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. 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 -
A contact phone number and email address for each HPP at the time that the latest (third) edition of ECP was published (April 2011) 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 below.
Honorary
Port Pilots
Sarah Hannah -
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. When she gets the time, she sails a Sailfish 18.
John White -
John White just seems to have been around on the Deben since the beginning of time.
He’s been Harbour Master at Felixstowe Ferry for 12 years, and assistant HM for 15
years before that, gaining recognition for producing the original chartlets and soundings
information on the Deben bar. A one-
Alec Moss -
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-
Bernie Hetherington -
After he became Harbour Master at Brightlingsea in 2000, Bernie Hetherington gradually
introduced better facilities for both local and visiting yachtsmen. He is now Chairman
of Brightlingsea Harbour Commissioners. He’s also the Local Light Authority for the
Colne. A one-
Nigel Harmer -
Some say Nigel Harmer is 850 years old; at least his job as River Bailiff on the
Blackwater is! An ex-
Martyn Garnsey -
Martyn has sailed out of Benfleet Creek as man and boy. A lifelong member of Benfleet YC, he sits on the area sailing club association committee and the regional committee of the RYA. He is a regular visitor to the Medway, Crouch, Blackwater and Ramsgate, and is a past master at working the tides in the Estuary in his Hanse 370 Abracadabra.
Paul Woodhead -
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-
Peter Fisher -
Peter learnt to sail in his teens in a Mirror Dinghy built by his father. His first cruiser was a Virgo Voyager, and he now sails a Westerly Griffon, Calviere Two. In her, he cruises the East Coast, and across the Channel. Peter is a member of Queenborough YC, and Engineering Advisor to the Queenborough All Tide Landing Management Committee. He is the QYC representative to the Swale Regatta and the Medway Yachting Association.
Simon Smedley -
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.
Clive Nicholls -
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 -
Jeremy Batch -
Jeremy is a Lock Keeper at Limehouse Marina. This was formerly the Regent’s Canal
Dock, and is where the Regent’s Canal and the Lee Navigation both now meet the Thames.
He is also a mariner -
Jim Dew -
Jim is an Engineer turned Controller so he could get more sailing in. Although he learned dinghy sailing and waterskiing at 8 years of age, he got his first cruiser, a Corribee in 1988, keeping her in the Middleway at Great Wakering. He has always been around the Crouch and Roach rivers and is currently both a member of the Royal Corinthian YC at Burnham and the Roach Sailing Association. Currently sailing a Jeanneau Full Circle out of Bridgemarsh Island with his wife Lynn, and loves cruising and socialising. Also still enjoys a limp round the race course, never seriously.
Terry Corner -
Terry Corner is an RYA Yachtmaster (Sailing and Power) instructor, based on the Orwell.
He’s been sailing since he was a teenager, and has owned and chartered his present
boat, a 30ft cat-
Philip Attwood -
Brought up on a riverbank and always living near water, Philip began a second career when he was recruited to take charge of Orford Quay. However, he soon found himself taking on the responsibilities of a harbourmaster at Orford. In common with his previous career as a publican, his aim is to offer a service that entices people to come back again.
For privacy reasons we do not show phone numbers on the website -
Meet them here, in the order they appear in the book -