The final day of our circumnavigation and a very pleasant coincidence occurred. Life long friends of Nigel and Nettie (Nigel’s wife) were getting the ferry from Lymington to Yarmouth this […]

We leave the town jetty pontoon at precisely 08.45 as required, and head up the Dart to the fuel pontoon, we are the first customers of the day. Once the […]

The weather and sea forecasts for the next couple of days were going to be lovely so as mentioned in the previous blog entry we had, for one reason or […]

Today we were going to enjoy the shortest passage on our circumnavigation, just 4 miles or so to Falmouth Marina. We were still bouncing about on our buoy as it […]

So the wind is going round to a northeasterly direction force 3 to 4 with a helpful tidal situation, which is perfect to get us down to Lands End some 50 miles […]

Padstow is the only genuine port of refuge on the north Cornish coast indeed almost the only place on the south west peninsular west of the River Avon and Portishead […]

The weather and sea state Gods were still with us and therefore it was decided that we would cross the St Georges Channel to Milford Haven on what would be […]

We move on to the diesel pontoon which seems an extraordinary distance from the pump. I ask the duty manager how it works? Just reel out the hose and he […]

Nigel’s scooter was on a ‘call back’ from the manufacturer so it was decided that we would take it back on our return home trip i.e.taxi from Bangor to Belfast […]

There was diesel in Port Ellen but only in cans, yet again I was grateful for the decent range I had with Start Me Up, it was 65 miles on […]