Stephen Davies has been in Hong Kong on and off since 1947. He served in the British Royal Navy and Royal Marines, taught at the University of Hong Kong and from 1990, with his partner Elaine Morgan, spent 15 years sailing 50,000 miles in a 38-foot yacht, working as a yachting journalist and pilot book writer to keep the ship in shackles. In 2005, he returned to full-time work, opening and running the Hong Kong Maritime Museum, in Stanley. In 2013, he returned to HKU, where he researches Hong Kong’s maritime past.