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Why bother planning anything?

We had been at anchor for a few days, and the arc that we had drawn with the track on our chart plotter was pretty impressive. Really thick as we had swung with the wind blowing at 38knots, thus...

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Sitting at anchor is great. It is relaxing and great to get away from everything, but we are in Scotland, so the weather was dreadful, plus we are not the kind of people who can relax. So we decided...

Lumpy Sea? We might get lucky!

Before we showed our latest sailing adventure, we thanked our supporters and they are Darrel Walters from the Sail Cruising UK Facebook group Paul Johnson Al from Perth Léon...

The dangers of helming a sailboat

Our stay in Tayvallich was really pleasant, with a good cross section of what Scotland has to offer, with a misty morning followed by a quiet sunrise, then glorious sun shine. However, the owner of...

We're gonna need a smaller boat!!!

We had left Gigha and we were sailing, we really wanted to sail as long as possible, after all the weather was lovely so why not. We were sailing slowly so at long last Beverley adjusted the halyard...

Don't put the sails up backwards

We left the secret anchorage after a few days chilling out and working, but the weather was right for moving on and more importantly the time window for departure had reached dawn rather than prior...

Anchor drag? Why we don't care!

While we were at anchor, Beverley chatted about the various controversies that there are on You Tube. For Beverley they seem to be about You need a larger anchor - More anchor then more...

Stop shouting! You know I'm right!!

We were in Carrickfergus and it was a particularly stormy day, When we have stormy days like this, it reminds me of a saying one of our friends from Liverpool used to say and that is Anyone can...

This is the cr*ppiest video we have ever made

We had left Port St. Mary and we were heading towards Northern Ireland. The winds were so light we were having to motor. We did try and sail, but the Genoa was in, then out so often that I joked...

Yachting can drive you up the wall

We were leaving Douglas after being there for longer than we intended. It had been nice in Douglas but it was time to depart and continue on our journey. It was a marginal sailing day so although we...