• Skip to main content
  • Skip to secondary menu
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Malcolm Snook

Author, Adventurer, Photographer, Entrepreneur, Consultant

  • Books
    • How To Anchor Safely – So You Sleep Well!
    • Hill’s Heroes
    • Sailing Alone Around The World – Audio Book
    • Think And Grow Rich – Audio Book
    • Of Land Sea And Sky
  • Gift Shops
  • Contact
  • About
  • Home

About

Malcolm Snook, I use the handle sailorsnook in many places online as I’ve been a liveaboard boat gypsy for nine years. Where does it go? I bought my Van Der Vlies 35 Dutch Steel Ketch in Waterford in Ireland in December 2003 and promptly moved on board and sailed her back to London via Wales and Lands End. That’s right I crossed the Irish Sea in December in a 35ft boat! Well, I wanted to be in London for Christmas, but it was tough.

I then spent some time doing the boat up and changed her name to Francesca after my daughter. Once that was completed I set off on the next stage of my travels, up the east coast of England to Scotland, then across to Norway, around Southern Norway and across to Gothenburg in Sweden and all the way around Sweden to the Northern Baltic and the wonderful swing dance camp at Herrang.

From Herrang I went to Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Southern England, Northern France, The Channel Islands, Biscay, Spain and Portugal and by now it’s the end of 2005 already and I’m in Sines Southern Portugal. I carried on travelling that winter and just before Easter 2006 I was in the wonderful City of Seville for Semana Santa celebrations and the amazing Feria.

A book about my travels will follow on from my first book entitled Of Land, Sea And Sky, so to cut a long story short I then travelled most of the Mediterranean, including the Aegean, The Middle East and North Africa. I also fitted in a trip up the Dardanelles and Bosphorus to the Black Sea, Bulgaria, Romania, Moldova (by land of course) and Ukraine.

Favourite places so far include Scandinavia, Italy and Sicily, Bulgaria, Lebanon, Israel, Egypt, Jordan and Tunisia. I threw in a delivery trip on another yacht across the Atlantic Ocean to the Caribbean and then sailed out to The Azores on my boat and then the latest big sail north to The Isles Of Scilly, both archipelagos are really lovely. And now I’m in London trying to replenish the bank balance!

As this section is supposed to be a bio I should fill in some earlier blanks. I was brought up in East London where I learned to play the violin and in a rough school in Walthamstow that’s no route to popularity I can assure you! And where, bizarrely, I also learnt to sail thanks to Ken Ford. (All in my first book). After school I became a skydiving instructor for six years – well why not and then I bluffed my way into advertising to earn the money to race cars, which I did for eight years – boyhood ambition fulfilled, I also did two years of rather more successful motorcycle racing then started my own advertising agency.

While running that business I also learned to dance, did a bit of acting, bought and sold vintage clothes and watches and wrote for a Harley Davidson magazine, before jacking it all in to go and be a liveaboard boat gypsy, which pretty much brings us back to the top! If you’re really keen to know more look for my books of which more are in the pipeline.

Primary Sidebar

Subscribe to Malcolm Snook

RSS Feed

Quiz Reveals How To Achieve Your Full Potential
Quiz Reveals How To Achieve Your Full Potential

The post Quiz Reveals How To Achieve Your Full Potential appeared first on Malcolm Snook. [...]

Program Yourself for Success
Program Yourself for Success

3 Killer Reasons You Are Not Reaching Your Dreams Whatever goal you have set for yourself there are 3 common problems that if you are like the majority of people may hold you back. 1. Making Excuses If we choose someone successful to look at as an example, like Steve Jobs, we’ll see that he […] The post Program Yourself for Success appeared first on Malcolm Snook. [...]

Thought Elevators
Thought Elevators

Thought Elevators is a secret system that uses a “Brain Elevation” technique to help you achieve success on autopilot. It takes the secret key to success that comes naturally to people like Steve Jobs, Albert Einstein, and Richard Branson… and gives that key to regular people like you and me. And it’s all backed by neuroscience research […] The post Thought Elevators appeared first on Malcolm Snook. [...]

Building up my gift portfolio on Society 6
Building up my gift portfolio on Society 6

The post Building up my gift portfolio on Society 6 appeared first on Malcolm Snook. [...]

Video Tutorial – Make Money From Simple Photography
Video Tutorial – Make Money From Simple Photography

My new five video tutorial on how to make money with your digital camera, even as an amateur photographer is on sale NOW!   The post Video Tutorial – Make Money From Simple Photography appeared first on Malcolm Snook. [...]

Archives

  • May 2019
  • January 2015
  • March 2014
  • November 2013
  • October 2013
  • September 2013
  • August 2013
  • July 2013
  • June 2013
  • May 2013
  • March 2013
  • February 2013
  • January 2013

Categories

  • Books
  • EMYR
  • Motorsport
  • News
  • Photos
  • Products
  • Sailing
  • Skydiving
  • Uncategorized

Malcolmsnook.com is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to amazon.com.

Copyright © 2025 · Magazine Pro on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in