Anchored near the lower harbour in Old Fishguard, we were the only craft out there apart from what looked to be one local boat on its mooring. We got to Fishguard old harbour at lunchtime after a fairly boring sail outside of Skomer and Ramsey Islands. Boring because it was too misty to see land […]
Padstow to Milford Haven – 70 nautical miles to go and most of it out of sight of land. We departed Padstow in the early hours of 24th May in order to have favourable tides at each end of the day, besides, Padstow inner harbour is behind a lock gate with limited opening hours. On […]
We left the marina berth at 10:30 on 18th May to round the Lizard and enter our last South Coast bay. Penzance was going to be full of boats so our destination was Newlyn. We made it into harbour among all the fishing boats in the afternoon at 17:00 having had a fairly lively ride […]
We were getting into good cruising territory after having crossed Lyme Bay – there are short hops between pretty destinations, but still we saw very few boats at sea. We reached Dartmouth having set off only 2 1/2 hours earlier from Brixham. We were in a marina berth for the first time […]
There is a very strong tidal race through the Needles channel at times so we left Lymington in the dark to take advantage of it on our departure. There was not a breath of wind and as you can see from the pictures it was completely calm, so we shot through the channels at 8 […]
Having crossed London with this little lot and having had to move along 3 coaches whilst on the move on a crowded Southern Rail train (which turned out to have to separate later into two portions), we arrived back on the boat ready to set sail on the 4th May. The bags held […]