Peter Mc

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About me

Gender Male
Occupation Writer and commercially endorsed yacht skipper.
Location Whitby, North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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Introduction Joint founder and webmaster of the The HMS Beagle Project. Professional yacht skipper (available for charter skippering & deliveries), author and freelance writer. Terrible clarinettist.
Interests Sailing, natural history, history and pre-history, reading (thrillers - sorely fed up with screwed up American cops/DAs - pop sciences, maritime history), UK liberal politics, evolution, playing the clarinet shockingly badly, classical music and west coast jazz.
Favorite Music Mozart, Beethoven, some Schubert and Bach, Gerry Mulligan Quartet, Oscar Peterson, Satch, Waterson:Carthy (and all offshoots thereof), Karine Polwart.
Favorite Books The Code of the Woosters, The Razor's Edge, HMS Surprise, Dinosaur in a Haystack, Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Experience, The War of Don Emmanuel's Nether Parts, The Voyage of the Beagle.

You've written a hit musical! How will you avoid having fame go to your head?

Theatres hosting musicals should be demolished and their casts sold into slavery in badly run uranium mines.