Secrets of the West Coast of Scotland, Bob Bradfield

Bob will talk about some of the stand-out places to visit and some of the much less well known. He will also suggest ways of making the very best of the time available to you, including exploiting the weather, whatever it serves up, and everything else the West Coast has to offer. He will illustrate his talk with photos but also with his charts and with anecdotes from his 15 years of surveying in West Coast waters.

Bob has devoted much of the last fifteen years to producing 750 charts of channels and anchorages that run, typically, on an iPad or Android tablet and show you exactly where you are at all times to within just a couple of metres. They are now used by most yachtsmen on the West Coast and also as the basis for the plans in the pilot books.

Bob has an engineering degree but spent his working life in finance in the City of London. On retiring at 50 he sailed to the Arctic, Antarctic, trans-Atlantic and round the top of Australia as well as all round northern Europe and many other places. He stumbled into this surveying and chart-making project and it has since become an addiction for which he has won many awards, including an MBE.

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