Site History

This site is now in its third generation, and slowly evolving in terms of content. It started life in 1997 as a spare time hobby with sporadic updates and due to the demands of work and family, it's not really moved on very far in the four years since. This latest version is most notable for having a set of additional material supplied by Robert Adams covering the final Baroque voyage. If any other visitors have material they'd like to offer, I'd be delighted to include it.

Site Excuses

Technically, this site is a disaster area. The pages are too large, the number of images is too great, and it performs very unpredictably when viewed through Netscape. The background colour is rather nauseous, testament to my suspect colour vision - but is at least web-safe! The text is also incomplete and rambles, and very clearly doesn't relate to the pictures at all in some places!  However, the subject matter seems of interest to a small niche audience - something the Internet is ideally suited for - so if you can put up with the download times, you may find something of interest.

Site Credits

Many thanks due to the readers of the previous incarnation of this site, whose many comments served as inspiration to continue the effort. It's been a long time since I've found time to work on this, but each note I receive gives me another little kick in the right direction. 

Strangely enough, the sort of technology that Tilman would have scoffed at, now adds momentum to my feeble efforts. This year has been marked by two chance meetings - one with a fellow IT consultant and former crew from 1977, and the other - thanks to the internet - with a young lady whose smiling face on a faded photograph taken in Torshavn 30 years ago differs little from the illustration on the back of the books she now writes. Thanks Lydia!

To Dave Glen and Roger Robinson - apologies for the lengthy silence - I look forward to meeting up again soon - either at the launch of 'the project' or before. Roger - I'd be delighted to include your notes and pictures from 1966... a subject for conversation over that next pint

Thanks also to Ben for permission to use Jim Lovegrove's Mischief pictures...

Comments and constructive abuse are always readily accepted! Please use the feedback link on the left or simply click here to e-mail me.

Bob Comlay - October 2001.