Welcome to the third generation of this site - October 2001

  • Still far from complete but it's become a living hobby! Recent additions include a set of pictures and some entertaining comments by Robert Adams - a crew member from the final pilot cutter voyage, the return from Reykjavik in Baroque. Also a few pictures reproduced - with permission - from Ben Lovegrove's site about his late father, Jim - one of the early Mischief pioneers.
  • The site has only really been tested in IE5 - hardly professional, but wrestling with Netscape will have to wait until retirement, my ambition being to finish the content first!!

    New (12/2001): US Film documentary / book

    Title:  "Ice With Everything"
    Subtitle: The Life & Times of the Legendary British Explorer H.W.Tilman

    Dave Glen's labour of love is now slated for general release in April, 2002 , following a premiere in California. 1 hour 45 minutes in duration, the film will be available in VHS (NTSC & PAL formats) and DVD.

    The companion book, "Ice With Everything" (300+ pages,  7" x 10", should be available in teh autumn of 2002 in Softcover and Hardcover, expected price $39.00. Signed, leather bound copies available to advance order at $60.

    For further details, please refer to Mistral Films at VisualXS

    New (12/2001): French magazine feature

    French yachting periodical are planning a major feature on Tilman, including photgraphs from this site, for publication early in 2002. More detail will be posted as I hear it.

    New (12/2001):     Dutch TV Feature in planning

    Having discovered that Jan Mayen-island, and the volcano Beerenberg represented the highest mountain of The Netherlands, keen mountaineer Ton Biesemaat  and skipper Eerde Beulakker  decided to make the first Dutch ascent of this ice covered mountain, from sea to crater rim, in June 1997. A film of this adventure was shown on Dutch TV later that year, and is now being extended and reworked for a wider audience

    Video fragments from the original television production can be found at www.adventuretime.nl, with an english description at www.snhe.net

    For further details, please contact Ton Biesemaat - Minus Ten Media Productions www.minus10media.nl

    Bristol Channel Pilot Cutter Links

  • "The Wave" - The Bristol Channel Owners Association website
    (Note this site is undergoing rework, 12/2001 - For more detail, contact Dominic Ziegler -  owner and skipper of Marianne, sister to Baroque.