Clockwise UK circumnavigation ...

[rbmatthews]

We have just finished our circumnavigation of the UK clockwise that took us just a bit over two years, although we did take in Cape Wrath and Orkney and had a pandemic to deal with somewhere in there too. Overall a great experience.

For those interested, the blog of our trip, musings and ramblings en route is at Ruby Tuesday

 

[NealB]

Thanks ....... I'll be taking a look.

 

[MikeBz]

Thankyou, that looks well worth a read.

So now you have to do another half a lap to get the boat home?

 

[claymore]

Well Done!
A great sailing achievement and a really well written blog. Thank you for sharing it.

 

[Birdseye]

We have just finished our circumnavigation of the UK clockwise that took us just a bit over two years, although we did take in Cape Wrath and Orkney and had a pandemic to deal with somewhere in there too. Overall a great experience.

For those interested, the blog of our trip, musings and ramblings en route is at Ruby Tuesday

I shall have a read.

Read a few pages and got as far as Milford, a place in my local area. Bit of info for you. You dont have to do what the range boats tell you - you are legally allowed to simply continue on your course and they then have to stop firing on the range. You might well want to be helpful and oblige them - most of us do so, but the reason that the range areas arent marked on your charts is because they arent prohibited areas anywhere in coastal UK.

If you get to France dont ignore them there. The froggies continue firing whether you are there or not. Zut alors! Merde!

 

[Sandy]

What a cracking blog. I plan to do the trip anti-clockwise in 2021, COVID allowing, and have marked it for reference.

 

[rbmatthews]

Thanks everyone for your comments, and apologies for the tardy response, we carried on and crossed over from Dover to Calais and up the coast to Vlissingen in the Netherlands where we did the southern half of the Staande Mastroute. It was only because we couldn't face the extra half a lap back again (MikeBz)!

 

[cherod]

greetings from Peterhead

 

[mil1194]

I shall have a read.

Read a few pages and got as far as Milford, a place in my local area. Bit of info for you. You dont have to do what the range boats tell you - you are legally allowed to simply continue on your course and they then have to stop firing on the range. You might well want to be helpful and oblige them - most of us do so, but the reason that the range areas arent marked on your charts is because they arent prohibited areas anywhere in coastal UK.

If you get to France dont ignore them there. The froggies continue firing whether you are there or not. Zut alors! Merde!

been there and done that (Castle Martin). They have a mighty quick large rib and come out to ask you to move out of the way. Like you say you don’t have to move but we did (due to their machine guns)

 

[Mudisox]

It is often quicker to continue through firing ranges than to alter to round them once "caught" by the range boats. Normally acknowledged and you continue on your way, unimpeded. However they have a job to do as do the folk who are training to shoot straight.

 

[Mudisox]

An interesting read, made all the better for the excellent photographs and comments about the vagaries and meaning of life.

 

[PaulR]

Altair 2017

to original poster - just started reading your blog and noted your comment re reports of weed/grass near Hoorn - very very true - see photo in our blog above on day 27 entry.

 

[rbmatthews]

Altair 2017

to original poster - just started reading your blog and noted your comment re reports of weed/grass near Hoorn - very very true - see photo in our blog above on day 27 entry.

That's quite a bit of weed. Looks like we did well to avoid it!