Roaring Girl

The adventures of the yacht Roaring Girl wandering the seas.

12 August 2013 | Ipswich, England
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02 July 2012 | Shanghai (high up!)
02 July 2012 | Shanghai (high up!)
02 July 2012 | Shanghai (high up!)
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01 July 2012 | Moganshan Lu, Shanghai

Fat cats in fat boats!

18 July 2010
We are still in Golfo Pero, experiencing 25kt winds at deck level (our mast head anemometer isn't working), with lots of white caps. At the moment it's a westerly, from which we are quite sheltered, but if the forecast veer to a northerly comes in, we will have to be moving!
In the meantime, we are spying on other boats. This is the place you anchor if your boat is too big for Porto Cervo (which takes some doing - 72ft looks very small in there!) Also for that strange breed, the yacht support vessel. This is the large boat on which you keep your toys - the helicopter pad, and so on. You park that conveniently close to the fleshpots and take your main boat in to port for swanking about.
This is the biggest one we've ever seen. You can see the yacht on the side deck: it is about 38 or 40 feet long, and is some kind of racer. Last night, they put her in the water for an hour or so's sailing, and then brought her in again. As casually as we handle our 3m dinghy.
Pip took the pic through our monocular; hence the anachronistic black rim!
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Vessel Name: Roaring Girl
Vessel Make/Model: Maxi 120
Hailing Port: Ipswich
Crew: Pip Harris and Sarah Tanburn
About: Captain Sarah and Chief Engineer/Mate Pip moved on board in 2003 and finally made the break in 2006. Roaring Girl, launched in 1977, has already been round the world once, and has a lot more seamiles than the two of us put together.
Extra: These pages aim to bring you our adventures as they happen, as well as Roaring Girl's sailing prowess. And to show off Pip's silverwork as well.

Who we are

Who: Pip Harris and Sarah Tanburn
Port: Ipswich