The Nautical Novice
  • Producer Ken Lee
  • Director Bob Bennett
  • Camera John Rowcliffe
  • Sound Ron Elson with John Tarrant
  • Continuity Margery Curry
  • Asst. cameraman Jack Baker
  • Graham Egarr and Peter Aynge were also in the film unit.
  • Backcloth Mike George
  • The Novice played by Joe Higgins.
  • The Picnickers played by Ken Webber and Gwen Hardesty (now Mrs Webber).
  • Some members of the film crew took other parts including Bob Spacie.
The comedy depicting the misadventures of an inept weekend sailor was, in the words of the Ten Best judges, "a nicely contrived production with some genuinely amusing sequences ….with a well-sustained and effectively controlled comic performance by the central character of the novice who emerges as something of a cross between Harry Worth and W.C. Fields."

As a result of suggestions, additional and substitute scenes were shot in the summer of 1981 which, it was agreed, improved this popular film,

Later in the year this film won the Randall Cox Comedy award at the 1981 Welsh International Film Festival at Cardiff where it was very well received.