Andrew Bray – Editor, was appointed in 1992, having been a yachting journalist since 1972. He has been cruising and racing offshore since the 1960s and has owned a number of yachts, the latest being the one-off, wood epoxy, 42ft Humphreys-designed fast cruiser, Firefly, now based on the South Coast of the UK after two seasons in the Caribbean and two Atlantic crossings.'

He has raced and cruised most northern European waters, East and West Mediterranean, Caribbean and Australia. He has taken part in a number of long distance events including Azores and Back, singlehanded transatlantic, twohanded transatlantic, Round Britain and Ireland twohanded and ARC.

Email: andrew_bray@ipcmedia.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 31484830

David Glenn - Deputy Editor, David has been cruising since he was eight. Before joining Yachting World in 1979 he cruised extensively in Brittany, south-west England, Scotland and Scandinavia. He has chartered all over the world, throughout the Caribbean, in Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, the Seychelles and many parts of the Mediterranean. He's competed in two Fastnet races, the Newport to Bermuda Race, countless Cowes Weeks, legs of the Clipper round the world race, the Atlantic Brazil Caribbean rally and the Europa Round the World Rally. He regularly competes in the Antigua Classic Regatta and regattas in the Mediterranean including the Voiles de St Tropez. He manages the SuperSail section of the magazine, large yacht features and Yachts news.

Email: david_glenn@ipcmedia.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 3148 4845

Matthew Sheahan - Racing & Technical Editor, Matthew Sheahan is Yachting World's Racing & Technical Editor. He attended the Southampton Institute where he qualified as a yacht designer and, before joining Yachting World, worked for the spar maker Proctor. He has a wide experience of top level racing which puts him in a good position to run the racing coverage for the magazine.

Email: matthewsheahan@csi.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 3148 4843

Elaine Bunting - Features Editor, Elaine Bunting has been sailing since the
age of six. She began racing dinghies and later crewed on a variety of
quarter and half-tonners in club events and regattas throughout the UK.
Elaine qualified as an RYA sailing instructor in her teens and has taught
sailing in the UK, Ireland and the USA. She has cruised throughout the UK,
Ireland and the Mediterranean and has crossed the Atlantic, Indian Ocean,
Pacific and Red Sea, and has sailed from South America to Antarctica.

Email: elaine@elainebunting.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 31484843

David Pugh - Features Writer, David began his journalistic career as the Geoff Pack Scholar, spending two six-month placements with Yachting Monthly and Practical Boat Owner before joining Yachting World in 2005. Degrees in Applied Physics and Telecommunications put him in a good position to edit the equipment pages of the magazine. One of David's other main responsibilities at Yachting World is running the popular boat test.

He qualified as a keelboat instructor in 2003 as part of nine months spent maintaining and sailing a fleet of traditional mahogany yachts on the Norfolk Broads, buying Contessa 26 Red Dragon in partnership with his brother and sister in 2003. She is currently berthed in Poole, from where David and his family cruise UK and Channel waters.

Email: david_pugh@ipcmedia.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 3148 4832

Belinda Bird - Production Editor, Belinda has been a key part of the Yachting World team since joining in the mid-1980s. Handling the smooth running of copy and photographs between art department, repro house and printers.

E-mail: belinda_bird@ipcmedia.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 3148 4838

Robert Owen - Art Editor, Robert Owen has been Yachting World’s Art Editor since 1992 having previously worked in this role for Boat International, The Field and Shooting Times. He was trained at art college in Southend-on-Sea before travelling the world working on large yachts in the Mediterranean. He was IPC Media Designer of the Year in 1994 and 2000 and is a keen photographer and ornithologist.

E-mail: robert_owen@ipcmedia.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 3148 4837

Maggie Nelson, editorial artist - since 1983 Maggie has been responsible for all the illustration and graphic artistry appearing in both Yachting World and Motorboat and Yachting magazines. A wizard on Adobe Illustrator, Maggie served her apprenticeship in the technical drawing office of British Aerospace and spends her spare time studying Egyptology.

E-mail: maggie_nelson@ipcmedia.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 3148 4841

Vanda Woolsey, Picture Editor, was the picture archivist for Northern Ireland's 'Historic Monuments & Buildings' before moving to Russia where she lectured for a couple of years, travelling extensively. On her return to the UK, she was a photographer's assistant for a major picture agency in London, trained as a radio reporter freelancing for the BBC, before moving across to write for magazines, though she's now back to her pictorial background.

E-mail: ywpictures@ipcmedia.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 3148 4835

Helen Bowley, Editorial Assistant, learned to sail on the family Topper as a child, but it wasn’t until backpacking around New Zealand that she stepped onto her first yacht and immediately caught the sailing bug. Since then she has cooked, crewed and skippered on charter-boats, superyachts, yacht deliveries and racing boats in New Zealand, Australia, the Mediterranean and the UK. Helen became an RYA Cruising Instructor in 2005, and has taught sailing in Britain and the Mediterranean. Her next project will see her back in the classroom however, mastering celestial navigation.
E-mail: helen_bowey@ipcmedia.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 3148 4842

Yachting World contributors

Sir Robin Knox-Johnston
Sir Robin holds an STCW Class 1 Certificate – formerly known as a Master's Certificate – from his 14 years in the Merchant Navy. He has had a very distinguished sailing career and is Britain's best-known yachtsman. In 1968, sailing his 32ft traditional ketch Suhaili, he became the first person to circumnavigate singlehanded, non-stop and without assistance. He has competed in many fully crewed and short handed races including the Whitbread, Admiral's Cup singlehanded transatlantic and Round Britain races and his most recent achievement was to co-skipper the giant catamaran ENZA New Zealand with the late Sir Peter Blake when she broke the Jules Verne Trophy for sailing round the world sailing non-stop. Sir Robin is also Chairman of Clipper Ventures which runs the Clipper round the world races for amateurs, and also the 5-Oceans single handed around the world race which will take place in 2006.

Sir Robin contributes a regular column and the occasional feature to Yachting World.