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Welcome to East Coast Sailing, the online magazine and website for everyone going afloat on the wonderful waters of England’s East Coast - the Thames Estuary - ranging from the Wash in the north to Ramsgate in the southeast with many creeks and rivers in between, including the Thames (‘London River’), which reaches into the heart of the nation’s capital city.

EastCoastSailing.co.uk is an active website that’s intimately linked to both www.EastCoastPilot.com (the updates website for the East Coast Pilot) and www.CrossingTheThamesEstuary.com (the website for the Estuary crossing planner, Crossing The Thames Estuary). ECS is home to East Coast news stories, Notices to Mariners, all the weather and tidal data you can possibly need, plus new products and books. It is not here simply to promote a magazine; it’s a useful, enjoyable place for frequent browsing in its own right.


East Coast Sailing, the monthly online magazine, contains a variety of feature material from cruise accounts, boating book reviews and practical boatwork to gear and boat tests, people, clubs and business profiles, plus reports on interesting and unusual boats - all of them based on the East Coast.


Don’t leave it all up to us though. Join the ECS community and help your fellow sailors by contributing news, information, stories and pictures to this website and magazine.

Now meet the ECS crew:

Colin Jarman
Colin Jarman. © Colin JarmanColin grew up in the East Coast mud and his heart still lies there, despite a career in marine photojournalism that has taken him far and wide across the sailing world (www.colinjarman.co.uk). He has written numerous books on ropework and seamanship, but he is at his happiest when sailing May Morning, his 20ft junk rigged bilge keeler wherever the tide flows and the curlews call.

Garth Cooper
Garth Cooper. © Colin JarmanGarth first floated on the Broads, but now sails his Kim Holman designed, carvel built Ngaire from her home berth on the River Orwell. A boatbuilding apprenticeship at Whisstock’s yard in Woodbridge somehow led to a job with the BBC as a broadcast journalist, but now he combines his sailing and writing with a heavy schedule as the vice chairman of RYA East.

Dick Holness
Dick Holness. © Colin JarmanDick is a Man of Kent who began sailing at Herne Bay where he was afflicted with the racing bug. Recovered now, he ranges far and wide aboard Cornsilk, his immaculate Moody S31. A part-time Coastguard, Dick also spends much of his time working as webmaster on the East Coast Pilot website (www.eastcoastpilot.com). Dick, Colin and Garth are co-authors of East Coast Pilot.

Roger Gaspar
Roger Gaspar. © Colin JarmanRoger has followed a successful career with the Police by combining his cruising aboard the substantial, carvel-built Tiller Girl with devising and writing his book Crossing The Thames Estuary and undertaking an on-going series of surveys of some of the East Coast’s shifting banks and swatchways. The results of these labours are to be found on his website www.crossingthethamesestuary.com - as well as here at ECS.