Sailing on the West Coast of Scotland and elsewhere
with PETER WADDINGTON
(ex Sinbad Charters & Yacht Zamora)
Villa Marina, Shore Road, Kilcreggan, Helensburgh,Dunbartonshire,
UK, G84 0HN.
Telephone/Fax: (+44)(0)1436 842247.Email: pwaddington1@btinternet.com
Old friends and customers please note the new postal and email
addresses. My telephone number remains as before.
Welcome to
my home page. I live in Kilcreggan on the Rosneath peninsula,
near Glasgow.
I am a retired Naval Officer with years of sailing and sea command
experience, and for 22 seasons, completing in the winter of 2004,
I ran a small Skippered Yacht Charter business & Sailing School,
trading under the name "Sinbad Charters", in my 36 foot Westerly
Medway yacht ZAMORA cruising one of the finest sailing areas
to be found anywhere - the beautiful West Coast of Scotland. I have
now also retired as an imstructor, and have disbanded my sailing
school and charter business, but continue to do a considerable
amount of private sailing for my own pleasure.To those of you who
may have found this site through an old link or search engine reference
looking for a charter, or a RYA recognised sailing course, I regret
that I cannot now help you, having ceased commercial operations.
There is however a link at the end of the site, under "Contact Details"
to the Association of Scottish Yacht Charterers, whose members can
give you the best in Scottish bareboat or skippered charters, and RYA
recognised sailing courses.
Those of you who have sailed with me before and would like to
join me, with perhaps a bit of tuition thrown in, please see the following
pages, beginning with "The Background and New Developments". My
West of Scotland sailing resumed in the last half of the 2011
season, having been "on hold" from 2008 when, after a brief shakedown
on the Firth of Clyde, the rest of the season was spent sailing ZAMORA
from Rhu to Malta, and doing a bit of touring and late season cruising
there in September and early October. During 2009 I cruised
the Med with the help of former customers, friends and family, via
the East and North coasts of Sicily, a circuit of Sardinia and
via Menorca, Majorca and the Spanish Costas to Gibraltar, finally laying
up the yacht in Lagos, in the Algarve. During the 2010 season, progress
was made towards returning her from there to Scotland, and an interesting
and successful passage cruise was made up the West coasts of Portugal
and Spain. However, I eventually ran out of available crew while
awaiting a suitable weather window to cross Biscay, and at the
beginning of October the yacht was laid up for the winter in Bilbao
in North Spain. Early in July 2011 I completed the return passage
to the Clyde by way of a cruise round harbours on the the Biscay coasts
of Spain and France, then via Newlyn, Milford Haven and a number
of harbours in Eire and Northern Ireland. After a short period catching
up on home and family matters I completed the 2011 season with a
few late Summer/ early Autumn weeks sailing in the Firth of Clyde, and
in 2012 I returned to a full Scottish sailing programme.
With some regret, having owned and sailed her for just under 36 years
of her almost 42 year life, during which time we have voyaged together
almost everywhere between St Kilda and Loch Inver in the North and
Malta in the South, I have recently sold ZAMORA. Having now
foregone the expense and labour of her upkeep,. my aim, while I am still
fit and can afford it, is to continue sailing by sharing an occasional charter
on the West Coast of Scotland and in the Mediterranean with any of my old
friends and sailing companions, and indeed any reader with sufficient sailing
experience to help crew a medium sized charter yacht, who would care
to join me. To this end I am now showing on my Current Programme page dates
from April to late summer when bookings have been made. Where there are no
vacant berths in any of the bookings shown, newcomers may phone or email
and suggest further weeks during the sailing season between April and October
in which they would like to join me. I will then endeavour to charter a
yacht for a week or two on the West coast of Scotland, single weeks on the
Firth of Clyde or, in any of the longer periods in which I am available,
a fortnight on either a bareboat charter or a flotilla hoilday in
the Mediterranean . First come will have the choice of specific dates,
duration and starting point, and I will then endeavour to obtain a suitable
charter and (unless the first taker wishes to bring a party or sail singly)
more takers to share the same cruise. (See Page 5 - "Current Programme").
Please keep an eye on that page, which will be updated from day to day
during the sailing season as individuals or groups come forward and things
develop.
I am most grateful to all those who joined me between 2008
and 2011, enabling me to complete a round cruise of 7385
nautical miles to and around Malta and back. Without your help I would
not have achieved any part of this enterprise. In recent years I have
looked for friends, ex customers and newcomers with experience of cruising
under sail who, for a share of the food, fuel and berthing expenses
while on board, would like to accompany me in continuing what has
been principally day sailing around the West Coast of Scotland
or the Mediterranean. This venture, changed since I ceased to run my own
yacht, will of course be a little more expensive as it will additionally
involve a negotiable share of the charter cost, but if enough people can
be persuaded to take part, this will keep the per capita cost down.
The Background
and New Developments.
Why the West
Coast?
Pick up Points
and Joining Arrangements in Scotland.
Current
Programme.
About ZAMORA
- a Memento.
Contact Details.
Family - Waddington/Robinson
Archive Photos