Ausboating.com.au editor Peter Webster is one of Australia’s most experienced photo-journalists, who has specialised in marine journalism for more than 50 years. During that period he’s tested well over 1,600 (“I lost count years ago!”) powerboats, yachts and trailer boats. He’s personally owned about 40 boats, and especially loved about 10 of them.

A frequent consultant to the Boating Industry, he’s renowned for his support of Australian boat building and his ‘telling it like it is’ style of journalism. He was the founding Editor of Australian Boating magazine in 1973, and continued in that position until it closed down in the 1989 recession “we had to have” before re-starting again in 1990.

In the intervening years, he founded the Australian Boating magazine group and created many well-known marine titles including: