China Girl, UK Circumnavigation - Year 5

Found decent wifi so came on to upload an excellent photo of Lough Swilly from the hilltop fort, looking roughly north. In the far distance is the Atlantic. Almost dead centre of the photo is CG in L Swilly Marina.

22 May 2023 | Lough Swilly Marina

We are still here!

Sorry about the silence, I've been hoping for a decent wifi connection somewhere but it nots going to happen so I'm using up my roaming 4G allowance.

05 May 2023 | Home in Sandy

Off we go again

We leave Sandy on Sunday (7th), having delayed our departure to watch the coronation, arriving Troon Monday. We plan to leave Troon Wednesday to take 2 or 3 days to get to Rathlin Island in Northern Ireland. From there, around 18 weeks to circumnavigate Ireland and get back to Troon, minus flying home [...]

02 September 2022 | Sandy

Statistics for 2022 and what next.

Overall this year we were away 14 to 20 June and 1 July to 26 August, 64 days, around 9 weeks. We moved the boat on 41 of those days including 2 nights in the Crinan Canal. We travelled 943 miles in 204 hours, 103 on the motor and 101 under sail. We had company for 6 nights (thanks Steve, very pleased [...]

02 September 2022

Back to Troon for the winter.

From the Crinan canal we overnighted in Portavadie Marina, a short 4 h trip in which we managed a 1 h sail. The following day we had one of our best sails of the whole trip from Portavadie to the anchorage on Little Cumbrae island in bright warm sunshine. 4.5 h in total with a 3 h sail. Then on the [...]

Circumnavigation of Skye, 2

13 August 2022 | Kyle of Lochalsh visitor buoy near Skye Bridge

Ann and Steve Crome | Foggy!!

After 3 days hiding in Portree we escaped as the wind dropped (slightly) on the 10th to run downwind to the mainland and Shieldaig, 5h, winds up to 30 kts rarely but 25 kts a lot. We were going downwind with half the jib up at up to 7 kts. Next day to Poll Domhain (6h), a tiny anchorage for a night to break the journey to Plockton which we completed on the engine for 2h in no wind yesterday. Plockton is a very pretty place with lovely views and the Plockton Inn does great food. We left Ploxkton for Armadale at 0840 this morning but ran in to dense fog, visibility down to c100m. So we bottled out and are now attached to a buoy about a quarter mile from the Skye bridge. Great 4G signal, small wins!

Photo shows our current view of the bridge!! I put at bit of the boat in for perspective.

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