A busy scene at the
Leith Shipyards of Robb Caledon sometime around 1976
Well 2020 it is then,
bloody miracle if you ask me, puts me in mind of an old Jager & Evens song
“In the year 2525, if man is still alive”
Perhaps someone will
change the year around to show 2020 but I digress, I have been asked a few
questions many times about plans for 2020
I shall endeavour to
answer below, always a wee bit reluctant to make plans set in stone as we all
know what happens to plans (Ask around in any shipyard and you will find out,
but we will not mention anything about what has really happened with the two
Cal-Mac ferries being built or not built at Ferguson’s yard on the Clyde)
Will there be a new
website in 2020 – Most definitely, although it will take a slightly different
format as this website will also feature the many books that I have on the go
right now both Non-Fiction such as the recently published Leith-Built Ships
Vol. I
I have Fiction books
starting with a trilogy about two young shipwrights from Leith,
full of madcap adventures. Set around actual ships built at Leith
in the late 18th century, that I am writing with the first two books
finished but as yet unpublished.
The new website will
also in time feature a very large library of ships photographs.
Will Volume II of
Leith-Built Ships be published in 2020 – Most definitely although still to be
confirmed with the publishers, but this book is 99% complete and almost ready
to go, with Volume III well on as well it could be an exciting year on the
publishing front to feature more on the almost forgotten shipbuilding and
maritime heritage of the old port.
There is a lot more
in the pipeline but as ever I don’t count my chickens before they are hatched.
Remember the first
book is now out and can be purchased from most good bookshops, for anyone
overseas the publishers can post to anywhere.
or it can be
purchased from Amazon at the following link
So for now it is on
to 2020 may it be a good one for all.
