My name is Tim Bartlett.
But you probably guessed that from the not-very-imaginative name of the website!
I'm now in my mid fifties, and I've been involved with the marine industry in one way or another since before I left school.
As a teenager, I had holiday jobs as a yard hand in a boatyard, and as a dinghy sailing instructor. Then, when I left school, I joined the Navy, went to Dartmouth, and served in the Cod War. I enjoyed a wonderful few years working as a professional skipper at Island Cruising Club, and a few more running a one-man engineering business in Cornwall.
In January 1987 I tripped over the (then) Editor of Motor Boat and Yachting on the Guinness stand at the Earls Court Boat Show. Somehow, that meeting led to me joining his team as the magazine's Technical Editor -- where I stayed for just over ten years.
Since leaving the staff of MBY, I have written for Sailing Today, Practical Boat Owner, Yachting Monthly, RIB International, Sportsboat, Sail (USA) and for several scandinavian magazines. I still write regularly for Motor Boat and Yachting, and am the Electronics Editor for Power and Motoryacht and for Sail. I've also written over a dozen books -- mostly on navigation, radar, and radio.
I now live in West Norfolk, with my partner, two daughters, three dogs and four cats, and seem to spend an inordinate amount of time riding a big green motorcycle up and down the the A1 and M3 between the Solent and the Wash.
