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Ready to do something positive to improve your chances of meeting a like-minded soul? If they're reading this you've got one thing in common already! No, make that at least two. They also share your interest in things marine, more than likely.

Single-handers ( that, for the smutty-minded and uninitiated amongst us, refers to the fact that they manage their boats alone, nothing more sinister...) we meet, usually male and mainly delightful, not to say delightfully eccentric, often say they  wish they had a soul-mate with whom to cruise the salty seas.

Land-lubbers sigh, often female, and say they wish a dashing sea-captain would carry them away on a tide of rapture. Sometimes it's the other way around and sometimes...

Single MANCUNIAN ( from Manchester, UK ) just over the half-century, Taurean, seeks a petite, vivacious, non-smoking lady, lover of sailing, animals and gourmet living, (on a shoestring!) to share life aboard a steel 43' ketch and explore the Caribbean and beyond. 
We can dive and swim, eat, drink and laze about on the beaches of paradise together. 
I'm not against marriage, to the right lady. 
If this appeals, and you'd like to come to Trinidad, or Tobago, for a sail and see how we get along, contact me on jtyachtsetc@hotmail.com

Sometimes a person ends up alone because a former partner simply didn't share the same sense of adventure and freedom. We've met more than one man whose wife preferred to be divorced rather than leave her TV soap operas behind, even for a while, and cruise the tropical paradise islands that beckoned to her more adventurous husband!

At best, placing your ad on this page will lead to a union of soul-mates who have found each other at last. At worst, nothing whatsoever will happen and, somewhere in between, you may make new friends. At least you will have stirred yourself and done something positive to end your loneliness. That can't be bad, can it?

Tell us all about yourself and the sort of partner you'd like to have. We'll publish your details and if two of you recognise each other as your kind of person or yourselves as their kind of person, we like to think that you'll e-mail each other and take it from there. 

If you find that someone you meet through this page is vastly different to the person described here, let us know and we will work on the description a little. If you have a downright bad experience, please let us know immediately and we will remove the offending person's description from the page immediately to save anyone else from having a similar experience.

If, as we hope will be far more often the case, you find happiness, friendship, love or even marriage through this page, we hope you will remember to share your story with other readers and let them rejoice in your good fortune. Not to mention keeping faith that their turn will come if they don't lose heart.

If you do decide to tie the knot after meeting through this page, remember to tell the world in the Hatched, Matched and Dispatched section too!
You've nothing to lose. Go on, what are you waiting for? Drop us a line!
Come on ladies, send us your details, we can't let the men be the only ones with the courage to admit they'd like a companion! 

If you're worried about sinister types, use us as an intermediary until you're certain you know enough about the fellow to give him your own e-mail address - people are less likely to give you trouble if they know Big Sister is watching, and willing to name names...all the chaps whose ads appear in this launch edition are personally known to us and you can certainly write direct to any of them in safety. They're all very nice guys, as it happens.