My plan last night was to do a night sail back to Guernsey. It was the first opportunity to move for several days due to high winds and a sequence of storm fronts moving through the Channel. I got as far as the outer harbour entrance in bumpy…
In this blog entry.. crashing the boat, crossing the English Channel, playing dodgem with big ships, storms, checking into France after Brexit and more changes in plans (why do I bother planning?). Let’s start with the embarrassing 😳 bit, hopefully you will have forgotten all about this by…
What a summer ☀️ 🙂 but today I will be travelling back from Wales to Lady Cindy in the river Hamble to resume my travels. I have spent the summer with Ffion and her family helping them to move and paint their new home. It’s not all been…
I spent the first part of this week finalising plans to sail across the Channel. As I had to wait a week to get Dotty’s animal health certificate, I decided to hire a car and go to see Ffions family doing their first live gig since before Covid.…
I am at Town Quay marina in Southampton and will be here another week preparing and supplying to cross the Channel at the beginning of June. I am spending time with family, taking a road trip to see Ffion perform a gig with her family, and getting an…
It’s been a tiring week of sailing, sometimes it’s been fun, sometimes relaxing, sometimes exciting and a couple of times a little scary. From St Ives I went around Lands End and stopped just before the Lizard point at a small anchorage called Mullion, I stopped there on…