Rotary Club of Lindisfarne Talks - Brian Stafford

Brian Stafford is an economist by profession and an alumnus of the University of Sydney from which he holds two degrees and a Sailing Blue.

Although he did not see the sea until he was fourteen years old, it was love at first sight. Since first moving across saltwater in a small dinghy he has owned four sailing boats and has a lifetime interest in all aspects of sailing; especially the history of merchant sailing ships.

He has now spent more than half of his life in Tasmania which he feels has some of the best sail cruising grounds in the world.

Brian is the author of The Great Windships: How Sailing Ships Made the Modern World.