China Girl, UK Circumnavigation - Year 7

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 [...]

05 September 2024 | Castle of May

Castle of May

Dunrobin Castle and Castle May are both well worth the visit if you are ever up that way. The latter has been kept just as HM The Queen Mother left it the last time she visited in 2001. The lady that introduced us to the castle had been working there since she was a child, she was probably in her 70s. [...]

Stormbound

08 July 2023 | Port of Galway (still!)

Ann and Steve Crome | getting better

Here we are still in Galway after 2 weeks. Steve A joined us on Wednesday to go sailing and now it's Saturday and we're still in Galway. Winds up to gale force have been coming through this area since Thursday. But, things are looking up, we've passage planned to leave tomorrow and arrive in Kilrush on Tuesday ready to fly home Wednesday. We've hit the live music bars of Galway, hired a car again for a day and visited an interesting exhibition on Patrick Pearce, one of the 15 leaders of the 1916 rebellion executed for his involvement. Found a number of pretty villages on the way around Connemara. A much recommended area for a land holiday if anybody is considering a visit to Ireland.

Tomorrow we should see the Cliffs of Moher, this time from the sea. Photo shows them from the land. Need to remember to take one from the sea for comparison.

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