China Girl, UK Circumnavigation - Year 7

We left Inverness yesterday for the short 8 mile trip to anchor at Fortrose. We decided this would be good to ease us back into the swing of yachting. It was a good decision, we were very rusty. It was a beat so we ended up doing 11 miles in 2 1/2 hours in bright sunshine but a cold northerly wind. [...]

17 May 2025

Solar panels

So we relaunched on Wednesday, cleaned, polished, put the sails on, checked, double checked aiming aiming ready to go today (Saturday). The improvement over the winter has been the addition of solar panels. We bought two fixed panels and a foldable, stowable one. We commissioned the boat yard top [...]

17 May 2025 | Fortrose

Welcome back - to tales of winter maintenance

We arrived in Inverness on Monday (12 May) for a couple of nights in a hotel as CG was out of the water. To cut a very long story short, CG needed the seal between the sail drive and the hull replace. The sail drive sticks through the bottom of the hull through an oval-shaped hole about 30 cm long and [...]

05 September 2024

Inverness and home

From Cromarty to Inverness, CG's winter home was only 17 miles, the wind was very light, we got 10 minutes of sailing in our last trip of the season but essentially it was a motoring day.

05 September 2024

Cromarthy firth

This is the view from CG looking the other way in Cromarty Firth. No so good.

05 September 2024

Off to Cromarty

Wick to Cromarty in our passage plan was 55 miles, mostly on a heading of about 220 (SSW). The wind had been south-westerly for days and we didn't fancy a 55 mile beat so we delayed and watched the weather like hawks. Eventually a day of Westerlies, not too strong was forecast so we went for it. We [...]

Sightseeing

01 August 2022 | Kyleakin

Ann and Steve Crome

Four nights in Ballycastle, a very pretty little place with good transport links. One day to chill, one for sightseeing, and one to clean and restock the boat. We got the bus from Ballycastle to Carrick a rede where the rope bridge crosses a chasm. Photo shows us on it. It was built to allow salmon fisherman access to the best fishery for miles around. Then on to Bushmills (where the distillery is, we didn't go) a pretty touristy village and back to the Giant's Causeway for the afternoon. Very busy with tourists from all over, no residual covid restrictions it seems.

Next - back to Scotland.....

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