Editing Alec Rose (section)

==After circumnavigation==
In 1973 Rose was given the honour of firing the starting gun for the first [[Whitbread Round the World Race]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Drastic early days of broken boats and high drama in Whitbread Round the World Race (Yachting World)|url=http://www.yachtingworld.com/features/whitbread-round-the-world-race/|accessdate=16 November 2014}}</ref> On 17 May 1975, he opened 5th Littlehampton Sea Scouts' HQ ''Gordon Hall'' in Lineside Way, [[Littlehampton]], West Sussex.

Rose provided the foreword for the 1980 reprint of [[Guillaume Brouscon|Brouscon's]] ''Tidal Almanac'' of 1546.<ref>{{cite book|last=Thrower|first=Norman J. W.|title=Maps and Civilization: Cartography in Culture and Society|publisher=[[University of Chicago Press]]|page=310|date=2008|isbn=9780226799759|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=cGeCNa_vookC&q=%22Alec+Rose%22+Southsea&pg=PA310|accessdate=16 November 2014}}</ref>