Sailing on the West Coast of Scotland

with Yacht ZAMORA

Villa Marina, Shore Road, Kilcreggan, by Helensburgh,Dunbartonshire, UK, G84 0HN.
Telephone/Fax: (+44)(0)1436 842247.Email: PWaddington1@compuserve.com
Old friends and customers please note our new postal address. Telephone number and Email address remain as before.

Welcome to my home page. My name is Peter Waddington, and I live in Kilcreggan, 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 retired, 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 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 programme for 2008 (for which please see the link below) will largely consist of a passage from the Firth of Clyde to Malta, then some late season sailing around Malta and Sicily before laying up in the Mediterranean for the winter. I propose to cruise in the Med during 2009 and position the yacht in the West (possibly the Algarve) towards the end of that season, with the aim of returning her to Scotland in 2010. Because of this my West of Scotland sailing in the coming season will be restricted to a Firth of Clyde shakedown cruise late in April, and will only resume late in 2010. However I expect, subject to health, finances etc., to return to a full Scottish sailing programme thereafter, so have left the bulk of my website unaltered for future reference. Hopefully ZAMORA and I still have a number of sailing years ahead of us, and as we have yet covered only a fraction of this vast cruising area, we will then continue to explore the West Coast of Scotland on the more extended cruises which I have been able to organise since retiring from chartering.