4sail2iceland

3 retirees - owner and skipper with 20 years experience, with 2 complete novices will sail to Iceland. This is our story the preparation of the novices and our most excellent adventure!

Vessel Name: annie's song
Vessel Make/Model: Hallberg-Rassy 34
Hailing Port: Ardrossan
Crew: Derek Jarvis (skipper), Phil Bamber (1st mate), Katrina wright
About:
Derek Jarvis : owner and good egg. 20+ years sailing experience, since retiring in December he plans to take refresher training including Yacht Masters Ocean Certificate. [...]
Extra:
We hoped that we would be 4 but to date we are still missing a crew member. Voyage to: Day 1 We will probably only sail from Ardrossan to Lamlash on Arran to familiarise ourselves with Annies Song and sort ourselves out on board. Day 2 Anchor off Sanda Island or Cambeltown, dependent on wind [...]
20 June 2016 | Portland
19 June 2016 | Dartmouth
18 June 2016 | Saltcombe harbour
18 June 2016 | Saltcombe
18 June 2016 | Saltcombe
18 June 2016
18 June 2016 | Salcombe
17 June 2016 | Fowey
17 June 2016 | Fowey
16 June 2016 | Helford
15 June 2016
15 June 2016
15 June 2016 | Atlantic
15 June 2016
14 June 2016 | Tresco
14 June 2016 | Tresco
13 June 2016
Recent Blog Posts
28 June 2016

The family passion lives on

Grandchildren celebrate their grandads return, playing pirates, sporting their new t-shirts. I think they have a few ideas for improvements of Annie's song

28 June 2016

Skipper is leaving the boat

Before the crew!!!

28 June 2016 | Levington

Last day! How sad!

Day 44, we have loved every minute

27 June 2016 | Levington

Annie's songs new home

Arrived at Suffolk yacht harbour at 2pm.

27 June 2016 | Felixstowe

Final day at sea

Left early 5am to catch the tides, it's amazing how the tides and wind can work with you or literally make you go backwards!the forecast for later in the day was force 6/7, so we decided to make a quick dash home to make sure our last day was a good one.

26 June 2016 | Ramsgate

Late arrival

No wildlife but some interesting vehicles on the way, loved this boat, reminded me of the sellers along the prom at Blackpool illuminations, selling day glo bands.😊

The family passion lives on

28 June 2016
Grandchildren celebrate their grandads return, playing pirates, sporting their new t-shirts. I think they have a few ideas for improvements of Annie's song

Skipper is leaving the boat

28 June 2016
Before the crew!!!

Clare (daughter) and Matthew (grandson) collect skipper for a well earned rest.

Last day! How sad!

28 June 2016 | Levington
Day 44, we have loved every minute

North west islands of Scotland, east coast of Ireland, Isles of Scilly, isle of white, south coast of England

AMAZING!!!!

We will never forget this,

Thank you so much Derek, to a very patient, happy, generous man.

Annie's songs new home

27 June 2016 | Levington
Arrived at Suffolk yacht harbour at 2pm.

Putting Annie's song to bed (for a short nap at least) sails away, dingy down, tent up on the back etc etc.

We will miss this little lady.

We crashed at 8pm, but Derek is still going! So he's off to the yacht club to meet his new neighbours.

Final day at sea

27 June 2016 | Felixstowe
Katrina
Left early 5am to catch the tides, it's amazing how the tides and wind can work with you or literally make you go backwards!the forecast for later in the day was force 6/7, so we decided to make a quick dash home to make sure our last day was a good one.

Went past these two ships in Felixstowe, believe it or not each ship has hundreds of freighter containers, each one brought into port by an articulated truck.

Late arrival

26 June 2016 | Ramsgate
Katrina / force 2/3
No wildlife but some interesting vehicles on the way, loved this boat, reminded me of the sellers along the prom at Blackpool illuminations, selling day glo bands.😊

Arrived 9.30pm

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