A SALTY DOG

Programme leader Captain Simon Davies (33) is pictured above on his daily commute to work along the beautiful river Eden. The purchase, last year, of his beloved motor launch H.M.S. Simon Says has boosted our heroic leader's already legendary sense of adventure. With the River Eden now fully explored and charted (in frightening detail on imperial graph paper) new horizons beckon...

Next August he hopes to navigate himself to the Isle of White to take part in Cowes Week. A confident Captain Davies stated yesterday, "I'm not daunted at all by the prospect of cruising to Cowes. I mean, how hard could it be? All you have to do is sail to the end of the Eden and turn left - or is it right?.."

The Coastguard Service has been informed,