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Yachtmaster Instructor, Peter Edington has completed some 40,000 ocean
miles, including three Atlantic crossings, one trans Pacific and twice
crossed the Tasman Sea, to New Zealand and back. He has been a
professional trainer for 25 years and holds the Australian Certificate IV
in Training
Born in Aberdeen, Scotland, he studied at Guildford College of Law and worked as a trainer for General Motors for a number of years. He taught Law and Business Management and more recently has been training in Microsoft software. In 1978, he built and launched his first boat (a Van de Stadt 42) , which he kept at Burnham-on-Crouch on England's East Coast. He chartered it regularly across the North Sea to Belgium and Northern France through the shoals and sandbanks of the Thames Estuary. In 1981, he moved the Van de Stadt round to the Welsh island of Anglesey, where he found a different kind of sailing on the boisterous Irish sea, taking charter guests (male and female and of all levels of expertise) to such beautiful places as Port St Mary on the Isle of Man. |
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In 1989, he decided on a new boat, Loquax, a 16 metre light displacement fast-cruising yacht this time. Once she was completed in 1992, Peter cruised the new boat through the rivers of France with his wife and three young daughters, arriving in Port St Louis du Rhone in the spring of 1993.
Thus began the first fourteen thousand miles of his ocean sailing career.