About

Owen Cox

Owen Cox

For many years Owen worked for a major charter company as dinghy instructor, yacht skipper, yacht engineer and cruising base engineer. During this time he accumulated a vast amount of experience in yacht systems, working in UK, Spain, France, Greece and Turkey. He then set up his own successful refrigeration and air conditioning company, designing, installing and maintaining this equipment in a range of vessels from cruisers to superyachts.

Throughout this time he has been an enthusiastic sailor of his own yachts, enjoying racing and cruising on a wide variety of craft.

In 2007 he returned to UK, based in the Southampton area, where he sailed a quarter-tonner, an Eygthene 24 named Mis Fitt, until exchanging her for a steel yacht, Arania. That boat was  sold because Owen’s demanding workload prevented him from regular cruising but he has now ventured back into cruising with a Beneteau based in France. He currently races a single-handed A-class catamaran or a crewed Hurricane catamaran at Bala Sailing Club. In 2016 he was the Unicorn catamaran  National Champion.

Owen is now the sole UK importer of Planar heaters, selling and installing them in motorhomes and yachts. https://www.planarheaters.co.uk/

Vyv Cox

Vyv Cox is a Chartered Engineer, holding qualifications in both metallurgy and mechanical engineering. He worked for 30 years in the petroleum industry, successively in Research, North Sea platform specialist engineering and Rotating Equipment Engineering. In all of these positions his primary responsibility was for the diagnosis of engineering failures. He is now retired from full-time employment but continues to lecture on training courses and is a consultant in a range of engineering fields

He has sailed for most of his life, in dinghies, small catamarans and, for the past 20 years plus, on cruising yachts. When based in Anglesey, he cruised with wife Jill extensively between Tobermory, south west Ireland, Brittany and Devon. Relocating to Holland they cruised most regions from the Baltic to Biscay in their Sadler 34, Straitshooter. They have been Mediterranean based since 2005 and now cruise the Greek Aegean Sea during the summer season.

 

 

Vyv contributes technical articles to many magazines and is an active poster on many yachting forums. His book, Metals in Boats, ISBN 9781785002625, offers information on the manufacture and deterioration modes of the full range of metals used in boat building.

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