I have thousands of hour's experience driving R.I.B's including
4 times around Britain and 2 times around Ireland. I am a Commercial
Yacht master and Royal Yachting Association Advanced Powerboat instructor
operating and hiring out work and safety boats for the marine construction
industry www.safetyboatservices.co.uk,
I also operate two M.C.A. Category 2 fast coded commercial boats for
everything from Surveys to Offshore wreck fishing and Diving through
to 'Eco' trips to visit the local Seal colony for the public.
I drove the lead R.I.B. in the trans-Atlantic windsurf race 2000, was
involved with the on water training of the successful South African
team in the last Camel trophy, have driven the safety boat for a successful
Round Britain windsurf attempt and also for 'Dutch Courage' and 'Double
Dutch' which was Graham 'G-Force' Hicks successful crossings of the
North Sea by jet ski (he is both blind and deaf). I currently hold the
record for Round Britain and Ireland beating the previous record by
nearly 18 hours, this was achieved this February and is still being
ratified and approved by the RYA and UIM.
I met Simon while driving the safety R.I.B. for his speed sailing record
attempt
Simon Sanderson
Simon is a yacht designer, Chemist, Physicist, Mathematician and
top Composites engineer amongst other things, who has been building
in Carbon fibre for many years. Simon designed and helped me build
a lightweight 4.93M R.I.B. in which I successfully circumnavigated
Britain. Simon is the director of 'The Unlimited
Speed Sailing Company'.
Wayne Johnson
Wayne has had twenty years working in marine construction , running
crane barges and jack up barges builing ports and marinas. director
of wj marine construction, raced cars for years being british banger
racing champ in 1990 and won around 300 races in my time, have just
set up new company in greece www.ionian-seafaris.com,
this is a rib based holiday touring the greek islands by rib.
Simons world record attempt 60ft Planing catamaran