Hi everybody. I'm Simon, aka Doc, based in North-West Worcestershire. Most of my boating is done on the Aberdovey/Aberdyfi estuary, though for a number of years I used to trail the boat up to Shell Island. My interest in boats really started in 1972 in Sandbanks, where we used to holiday as a family. After much, er, whining from me and my sister, my Dad bought a Dell Quay Dory 13 with Johnson 25 and then in 1974 a Fletcher 155 with 120 Mercuriser. From 1976 we were boatless until 1992 when I bought a Dell Quay Eurosport with 70 Evindrude and had a great couple of seasons waterskiing and generally messing about on the Conwy estuary, where my folks had retired to (and are still there, at 86 and counting...). Sadly, a divorce meant sale of said Dory (that's sad about the boat, to clarify
) and I operated with an aluminium 10ft boat (can't remember the make) and a Honda 5 (still got the Honda for my inflatable) for about 5 years and then in about 1998 bought the Bonwitco, originally with a Mariner 30, replaced in 2012 with an E-Tec 25, new trailer in 2008. Occasionally, we trail her elsewhere and have been to Wareham and Conwy.