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sailing images - by sailors, for sailors

Mike Rice founded Fotoboat in 2003 following a career in the Armed Forces and more recently as a management consultant.  He has built, sailed and raced a variety of dinghies since learning to sail in the late 1980s.  Mike is a member of Exe Sailing Club  where he is the webmaster and newsletter editor.  His current ambition is to qualify as a RIB driver.

Alan Henderson is a full time sailing writer and photographer, based in Ayr, in the South of Scotland.  Alan joined fotoboat in April 2004, and can be seen most weekends taking photographs at events in Scotland and the North of England. Alan supplies photographs to competitors, sailing magazines, local newspapers and other buyers. A keen dinghy sailor, Alan is a frequent contributor of both words and pictures to sailing magazines. He takes on commissioned work, both photographic and writing, for selected clients. His busy shooting programme covers all popular dinghy classes, and includes many major Championships as well as open meetings.  Alan can be contacted on 01292 281383.  

Steve has been a full time professional photographer since 1992.  He lives with his wife and son in Weymouth, Dorset, just a stone's throw from the beach.  He is an experienced dinghy sailor and power boat user and sails at both Weymouth and Portland National Sailing Academy and Castle Cove Sailing Club.  He supplies photographs to competitors, web sites, sailing magazines, local newspapers and anyone else who wants them.  

Steve covers many events in his local area, ranging from club level races to World Championships.

Tim sails a B14 at Brightlingsea SC.  When he is not racing, he takes his camera out on the water to capture the action.  He sells his pictures through his club web site and contributes £1 per print to the RNLI.  The same deal will apply if you buy Tim's pictures through fotoboat.

Tom studied ND Photography at the Plymouth College of Art and Design. He first picked up a film SLR camera at the age of 11, taking photos of landscapes, seascapes and motorsport and when he started sailing aged 14, he started photographing this too. He currently sails a 12ft Skiff, but has sailed Cherubs, National 12s, J80s and offshore racing yachts. Tom works as an Editorial Assistant for Yachts & Yachting magazine and as a freelance photographer. You can contact him on 07745 648661 or through his personal website at www.tom-gruitt.co.uk 

Heather is a former dinghy/keelboat member of Queen Mary Sailing Club, where she enjoyed great sailing photo opportunities "on the doorstep" . Her photographs, many of which can be seen on the QMSC website and around the clubhouse, have frequently been published in Yachts and Yachting, often accompanying her reports of major events. Since moving to Teignmouth in Devon 2 years ago Heather has not done so much photography, but she says "the partnership with Fotoboat has given me a new direction".

Elaine is based in North Wales, where she combines sailing photography with racing an RS 400 at Port Dinorwic sailing club and competing in the RS Fat Face circuit.   Elaine has been a sailor "for a long as she can remember". She started taking sailing photographs as part of her degree, during which she worked with Martin Turtle and Dave Walker.   Elaine will be well placed to cover some major events for Fotoboat, including Abersoch dinghy week and other events in the Llyn peninsular, North Wales and the North West of England.

Dawn Barsley Dale is a keen dinghy racer, helming both a Europe and Flying Dutchman and crewing a Merlin Rocket at Lymington Town YC.  When not sailing, she busy taking pictures and is happy to respond to requests for photography for specific events.  

Dave Walker has been sailing since he was 8 years of age. He has made his name as a crew at the highest level and has sailed with many top helms including Neil Marsden, Ian Pinnell, Rob Greenhalgh, Jim Hunt, Dave Winder, Neil Thornton, Tim Rush and both the Steve Goachers. Some of the classes Dave has sailed include Mirror, Streaker, Scorpion, Fireball, B14, Solo, Contender, 505, 470, J24, Cork 1720, 18 Foot Skiff and Mumm 30.

Dave has had great success along the way, winning national and international titles, especially in the Fireball where he has been Inland Champion 4 times, first at the World & European Qualifier twice, and second in the Worlds. He has also won the J24 Irish National Championships and come second in the Champion of Champions race. 

Mike Shaw

Mike Shaw learned to sail while serving in the Armed Forces. Later, he became the youth fleet captain at Burton SC, where his son was introduced to Derbyshire Youth Sailing. Mike introduced and developed the Derbyshire Youth Sailing website www.dysailing.com. Through this he re-discovered a passion for photography. Since 2003 he has carried out photography for every Derbyshire Youth Sailing event which includes 10 series events per year held throughout the County plus many National Schools Sailing Association events. 

Mike will be on hand to provide energetic and enthusiastic pictorial views of the great inland sailing which occurs at many events throughout the heart of the UK here in the Midlands

Clare is a freelance sports photographer working in the SE and East Anglia. Although most of her work has previously concentrated on land based sports (mainly cricket and hockey), in 2006 she had the opportunity to start taking pictures on the water, thanks to her family's involvement in dinghy sailing.  

Richard grew up in Grimsby and sailed with the Enterprise fleet at Grimsby and Cleethorpes Yacht Club.  Among the sailors who were happy to mentor the cadets were some legendary dinghy sailors of the 1960s and 70s – Dai Jones, Bill Bacon, Mike Rimmer and the McNamara family, to mention a memorable few.

Although no longer sailing competitively, Richard has been able to direct a long-held interest in photography towards sailing.  He now combines weekend photography with a weekday career in his local hospital and bringing up a young family.

Gary is a very keen sportsman, playing mainly football and rugby in his sporting career but he has also been involved in skiing and windsurfing. When Gary's career as a participant was forced to end due to injury he was keen to continue his involvement, so he turned his hand to photography.  

Gary now works as a freelance sports photographer working mainly in the Dorset area but covering sports all over the south coast. After attending a photographic course at Bournemouth Arts Institute he had the opportunity to take some pictures for WPNSA. This fired up an interest and passion for taking action shots of sailing events. This was over two and a half years ago and Gary has been talking pictures of events at WPNSA ever since. Gary’s pictures are now used in various publications and he is a regular contributor to the Dorset Daily Echo. His work on sailing and his other sports can be seen on his own web site www.ciamges.co.uk. Please feel free to contact him directly on 07970 122343.

Tom Hurley is a freelance photographer based in Exmouth. Though most familiar with shooting live music, he is as happy at sea as on stage. His sports work has included hockey tournaments in the UK, golfing in the USA and rowing photography in Devon and Guernsey. To see more of Tom's work, visit www.devondigital.co.uk, or contact him directly on 07967 384910.

Debbie is a Civil Engineer based in Worcestershire, a keen sportswoman she has competed in Sailing, Golf and Archery.  The digital era has revived her interest in photography which she likes to combine with her passion for sailing.