Mastering our harbours
Harbours and Their Masters, by Mark Ashley-Miller
Novice skipper Mark Ashley-Miller recently spent five years circumnavigating the UK and Ireland on his 34ft ketch Good Dog as a charity challenge – interviewing and photographing the harbour masters he met along the way.
Now his epic voyage is charted in a beautifully-illustrated book featuring more than 500 colour photos and a foreword by HRH The Princess Royal, the master of Trinity House.
The book provides an invaluable understanding of the work of harbour masters in keeping our ports safe, but as the author himself admits, he did not have space in print for all the 256 interviews he carried out.
Luckily, his website www.harbourmastersailingchallenge.co.uk provides greater detail about the port guardians he met between 2019 and 2023 – including numerous Nautilus members.
Do buy the book, though. Mark Ashley-Miller has raised over £30k for The Seafarers' Charity, and by investing in a copy of Harbours and Their Masters, you'll be helping to raise even more.
Harbours and Their Masters: Sailing into nearly every harbour in Britain and Ireland
By Mark Ashley-Miller
Fernhurst Books, £25
ISBN: 978 19126 21804
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