Rod Heikell has spent more than twenty-five years cruising the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean. Rod Heikell is the acknowledged expert on sailing in the Mediterranean. His pilots have become the model for others and are often referred to as the bible. Since the publication of his first book, Greek Waters Pilot, in 1982 which is now in its eighth edition, he has written over a dozen others on related matters and also edits the Imray-Tetra chart series.