Chris
was elected chairman of the Eastern Regional Committee in 2006, having represented
BACSPA since he became its chairman in 2000. He also chairs the RYA Planning
and Environmental Committee.
After a career in the Royal Navy from which he retired as a Weapons Engineer
Commander, he spent eight years writing computer software and then joined the
Design Council as head of personnel; finally retiring in 2005.
Chris has been a member of Tollesbury Cruising Club since 1995, has served as
a flag officer and in1999/2000 Commodore of the Club.Having learnt to sail in Fireflys in the early fifties he’s now the permanent
crew and navigator on the Westerly Oceanquest Calidris sailing out of the Blackwater,
regularly cruising in the North Sea and Channel.
Chris Edwards
9 Woodrolfe Park
Tollesbury
Maldon
Essex
CM9 8TB
Tel 01621 868834 Fax 01621862615
Terry
is a commercial power and sailing Yachtmaster. He represents
the Royal Naval Sailing Association (RNSA) on the regional committee and is
a Personal Members’ representative on the RYA Council, is a member of the RYA
Cruising and Government Affairs Committee (CGAC) and is the Eastern Region representative
and chairman of the Offshore and Coastal Consultative Panel (OCCP). Terry is
a retired member of Royal Naval Reserve, former chairman of the RNSA (East Coast
Unit) and a past commodore of Royal Harwich Yacht Club (RHYC).
In his spare time he leads the Harwich Lifeboat Sea Safety team delivering sea
safety messages to all sectors of the marine community. Terry sails a Nonsuch
Ultra 30, currently berthed in the Netherlands.
Terry Corner
Tel
01473 730970 Mobile 07711 576843
John
Crisp represents the Association of Nene River Clubs and says he started sailing
on a ditch with a friend in a punt rigged with potato sack sails! Later he joined
Peterborough YC and acquired a National 12 in which he admits to occasionally
winning races.
He was Commodore of PYC from 1971 to ’73 and has looked after the coffers as
treasurer since 1986. He’s been an RYA Shorebased Instructor since 1976.
Now he sails a Westerly Storm out of the Deben at Woodbridge. He’s been a member
of the committee for eight years.
Ted
is one of two representatives for HASA on the Regional Committee. He is immediate
past Commodore of the Woodbridge Cruising Club (having been Treasurer for six
years), and currently East Coast Organiser of the Hillyard Owners Association,
Treasurer and Trustee of the Arthur Ransome Society (TARS), and with his wife
Diana, joint secretaries of the East Region of TARS.
He sails and maintains two Hillyards, a 4 tonner Twinkler (1922), one of the
first to be built, and a 6 tonner, Ragged Robin III, first owned by Arthur Ransome
in 1951/2 when it was then called Lottie Blossom. Ted and Diana have sailed
Ragged Robin extensively in the Netherlands, Denmark, Northern Germany the Scillies
and Brittany. He has no spare time!
Ted Evans
Tel
01394 388295
Martyn
Garnsey represents the Association of Yacht Clubs of Southend-on-Sea. Martyn
got his first sailing dinghy, an Albacore, in 1970 (age 7) and at the same time
joined Benfleet Yacht Club. He moved up to a Dragonfly pocket cruiser in ’72
and the same year took on the position of Sailing Secretary. Two years later
he switched to a Kestrel 22 in which he cruised the East Coast until 1981 when
he bought the Holman 26 Canewdon Witch (his favourite boat). In 1995 he bought
a Jeanneau Arcadia lift keel, which he still owns.
He joined the regional committee representing the clubs in the Southend area
in 1990 and is a past vice-chairman. He’s an RYA Dayboat and Dinghy Instructor
(tidal).
Martyn Garnsey
Tel
01702 201596 mobile 07860 681633
Janet
Gilmour represents the Norfolk and Suffolk Boating Association (NBSA). Janet
joined the Regional Committee in 2002. After first sailing a dinghy on holiday
in Greece in 1981, she joined Buckenham Sailing Club (BSC) on the River Yare
in Norfolk and has enjoyed racing on one of the finest stretches of river on
the Broads ever since. For many years she owned and raced a Javelin and now
owns and races a Leader.
She has been a committee member of BSC since 1985 and has held positions of
Sailing Secretary and Commodore. She produces the club’s Year Book and co-organises
the annual Buckenham to Breydon and Back passage race for fast dinghies, a race
started when she was Commodore in 1992.
She was appointed to the NSBA General
Purposes Committee in 1999.
Janet Gilmour
Tel
01986 896017 mobile 0986 896017
William
Hadley represents the Crouch-based clubs as one of two Crouch Area Yachting
Federation (CAYF) delegates. William is a printer and marine photographer and
lives with his wife Liesl and four young children at South Woodham Ferrers.
The family are members of Eyott Sailing Club, and sail Toppers, Herons or Miracle
dinghies as often as the tides will allow.
William started sailing at Stone on the Blackwater as a youngster before the
family moved to the Isle of White and he sailed a variety of boats on the Solent.
When not on the water he can be found deep under the surface scuba diving. In
2006 he funded the RNLI D-Class lifeboat – The William Hadley – D653 – stationed
at Mabelthorpe, Lincs by running several marathons and cycling ‘uphill’ from
Lands End to John O’Groats.
William Hadley
Tel
01268 533121 mobile 07974 933040
Tony
James represents the Harwich Area Sailing Association (HASA) on the regional
committee. A retired chartered accountant he’s been chairman of the Association
and is now its treasurer.
Tony is a past double commodore of Royal Harwich Yacht Club and for five years
was club president.
A life long dinghy and keelboat racer he regularly races an Ajax 23 at RHYC,
of which club he is a life member, as well as cruising the North Sea coasts
in his 10-metre Buchanan Ketch.
Tony James
Tel
01473 328596
Geoff
Parrish represents the Great Ouse Boating Association.
Geoff Parrish
Tel
01353 740420
Peter
Waghorn represents the Bedfordshire and Cambridgeshire Area Association. Peter
Waghorn is one of the longest serving members of Regional Committee having been
elected by his area association back in the early '90s.
Peter has been a member of Grafham Water Sailing Club since 1973 becoming Commodore
in 1986. He’s also been chairman of the sailing committee and the open meeting
co-ordinator for a number of years until 2002. He is also a Club Race Officer
and has run his area association regatta for a number of years and is an active
club racer in the Flying Fifteen fleet at Grafham. He is also very involved
in his 'other' sport of cycling and still promotes cycle racing at the Gosling
Sports Park velodrome near his home in Welwyn Garden City.
Peter Waghorn
Tel
01707 327011
Geoff
Town represents Herts and the West Essex area
Geoff Town
Tel 01277 821355