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Name
  
Jamie Campbell

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Author

Jamie Campbell (born March 21, 1950, in Carshalton, Surrey) is an East Anglian author and journalist. Campbell's home is Gorleston-on-Sea, Norfolk. Campbell's non-fiction works cover traditional East Anglian waterways livelihoods, yachts and the other commercial sailing craft with emphasis on The Broads special area with legal protection equivalent to a national park — a major European sailing and canal boat centre.

Contents

Works

Commercially published works include:

  • Hamilton's Broads Navigations
  • George Christopher Davies, a biography
  • A History of Norfolk Punts
  • A history of The Royal Norfolk & Suffolk Yacht Club (2009)
  • Context

    Campbell is a yachtsman recreationally on estuaries and at sea, who raced to an international level for 25 years mainly in the 505 and Dragon classes with occasional sallies in the 1980s in the notably winning Flying Dutchman (dinghy). He in earlier adulthood competed in a number of shorthanded longhaul races. Later he competed in 'Excelsior', a restored Lowestoft-style sailing smack and sails the 35-foot classic Broads-style smack 'Evening Flight'.

    References

    Jamie Campbell (author) Wikipedia