Judges & Sponsors

Keen boater and acclaimed actor David Suchet is delighted to support this photography competition. Best known for his portrayal of Agatha Christie's Belgian detective Poirot, David is Vice-President of The Waterways Trust and a staunch supporter of the Trust's historic boat collection, sponsoring historic narrowboat Shad.

Mark Horton is a professor in archaeology at Bristol University, a presenter of BBC2's Coast, and the owner of a classic Maurice Griffiths designed gaff cutter.

Peter Mumford took his first photograph in 1958 and created his own darkroom when he was sixteen.  Following a career of twenty years as a shipbroker on The Baltic Exchange, he joined Beken of Cowes in 1992.  Peter now forms half of Beken's photographic team, taking the largest proportion of the colour photographs sold by the firm today.

Campbell McMurray is a former director of the Scottish Maritime Museum, Irvine, and the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth.  Since 2008, he has been a member of the Board of the ss Great Britain Trust and the Advisory Committee on National Historic Ships. 

An enthusiastic sailor since his infancy, Dan Houston has edited Classic Boat Magazine since 2000. He has covered boating stories from various corners of the globe and is never happier than when sailing. Classic Boat has an enviable reputation for marine photography both from today and yesteryear which forms a large part of the title's narrative on the joy of owning, restoring and sailing traditional craft.

Classic Boat Magazine is the media partner for the competition, but is also sponsoring Category D by offering a two-year subscription as a prize, with the winning photograph being used as the CB ‘Big Picture' of the month.

Categories C.1 & C.2 have been sponsored by Olympus, who is offering an Olympus Tough 3000 digital camera for each category winner's school.