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Managing Editor of MarineZine, Linnet Woods,  was taught by her father, British diplomat Murray McMullen, to dinghy-sail amongst the hippos of Lake Naivasha in Kenya, when she was six years old, over forty years ago.
Mate aboard Leopard Normand III, since 1996, she is responsible for the design and creation of this online magazine, during  two trans-Atlantic voyages and spells in the Caribbean and the Azores.
Her Swiss/Italian mother, Fulvia Schenk-McMullen was a  radio broadcaster and journalist whom Linnet helped to write her arts page in the Swiss magazine Galatea up until a few months before she died, in January 1998.
Previous relevant occupations have included audio-visual production,  personnel training and equipment demonstration, amongst others.

Executive Editor, Keith 'Robbie' Robinson, born 21st October 1945, English captain of the 71' staysail schooner, Leopard Normand III, since 1989, has been sailing for over 45 years, early on as a Hobie cat racer, later as owner of several yachts, and captain of others.  Apart from his renown as a Fine Art expert, he also enjoys a reputation as a gourmet chef and was a boardsailing instructor for a time. he enjoys open water diving and has also been called 'the ideal charter skipper' being not only considerate but entertaining too.
Robbie is an avid reader of naval history, thus qualifying to be described as contemplating his naval, at least some of the time.
Cap'n Robbie has also taken to poring over technical manuals in recent years and become quite a dab hand at fixing those pesky machines that seem to abound on modern boats.

Bella 'Claws' McCaw, born in 1991, the Sub-Editor, is an Ara Ararauna. She was hatched from a warm armpit (no-one on the team) and is nearly ten years old. 
She has logged about 37,000 sea miles and considers herself competent crew but is, quite frankly more of a hindrance than a help, having a nasty tendency to use her beak as a wire cutter on cables leading to delicate instrumentation... 
On the other hand she can remove teak deck-plugs at a speed which defies description. Not an easy feat.
When MarineZine's HQ is underway, Bella sits close to whoever is at the helm and shouts instructions, insults, demands...ashore she charms people into letting her dip her beak into their drinks or waltz off with a chicken drumstick she has stolen from their plates - she is absolutely incorrigible and we grovel endlessly but no-one seems to mind! She sorts incoming mail which can be a slight problem...
Bella is a vital member of the team, never being backward in coming forwards. She is never troubled, even momentarily, by any of the social conventions we are too reserved to flout.

Our Chatpages Teen Scene Editor, Stephanie Walker, is a fifteen year old Australian student. Last year, she returned to Australia, from the Caribbean, to attend boarding school, which she looked forwards to with keen anticipation, having missed the company of other young ladies of her own age. 
5' 9" tall Stephanie wants to sail and sing, sing and sail... she helped to structure the Teen Scene section whilst living on 'C' Dock at Powerboats Mutual facility in Chaguaramas, Trinidad, West Indies, with her mother, Judy, a former women's rowing coach, and stepfather, David Ramage, a member of Australia's Olympic rowing team in 1964 and 1968.
The family live, and charter, aboard the gorgeous 62' schooner 'Metani', built by David, over a three and a half year period, in Geelong, near Melbourne, in Australia and launched in 1985.
 'Metani' won the Concours D'Elegànce at Antigua Classic Week in 1993 and was being fitted with a brand new deck, by David and Judy, as Stephanie worked on the 10 pages which make up Teen Scene in our Chatpages section.

Editor of our 'Multihulls' page, part of 'Yachts' in the All Afloat section, is Frances 'Fran' Slingerland from Montreal, Quebec. 
Fran is mate aboard 'Ninth Charm', a sleek 38' Richard Newick 'Native' performance trimaran. Together with John, the captain, she has been sailing in some pretty exotic places, as described on their own website. Apart from being a writer and editor, Fran is also a classical singer.

Our Steel Boat page editor, Chris Price, is an Englishman. Or so he says. We believe he may be from some other planet altogether. Some world advanced way beyond planet Earth. He hails from Gravesend in Kent and may well have been born in the normal manner, in which case he is about half a century old. His past activities have included serious involvement in the world of combat sports (!) and  employment as an engineer in radio, telecommunications, electrical and light engineering. 

Chris first sailed on Enterprises, in Teddington, on the river Thames, at the age of sixteen and, has owned a series of boats since then. He recently sailed 6000 miles solo, from Cape Town in South Africa to Horta in the Azores, to take a break from building himself a 37' steel boat back in the UK.
He is to  boat systems as Patrick Moore is to the stars above. Whether Mr. Moore is to boat-systems as Chris is to the stars is one of those imponderables...one thing they do have in common is a reputation for being 'Techies'.. he will be looking for opportunities to expand the Steel Boat page into a section...nay an empire, even... 

A few of the other pages have been edited by guest editors, or should that be ghost editors? We are truly grateful to each of them, but there were not nearly enough of them and the rest of the pages, which is most of them, were knocked into their present shape by the managing editor. Apparently executive editors just execute anyone who isn't getting the job done, they don't actually do the job! Some people have all the luck.  Seriously though, the Executive Editor not only helped to develop MarineZine but also took on everything else which should have been the mate's responsibility for nearly eighteen months, fed her face with his fabulous gourmet cooking and gave total support, almost without complaint, in spite of being required to put up with acute discomfort and computer babble virtually round the clock, seven days a week for months at a time, leading up to the re-launch in February 2001.