Considering sailing around Britain?

[Gwylan]

Based on experience you need to have your brain removed and a good cushion fixed to your trousers
Frightful slog and tedious beyond belief without a fast well fitted boat

Got stuck on the West coast of Scotland for a whole summer - made it worthwhile

 

[Gwylan]

Going back

unless of course you spread it out over a long period - doing it one bit at a time

it changes your sailing and you possibly go sailng less frequebntly - because of the time travelling to the boat - but I am sailing more intensively than I used to

and I am certainly enjoying it a lot more

gets the old adrenalin going at times

and there is nothing like sailing up a new river or estaury for the first time

really not knowing what is around the corner is a thrill beyond price

not often work offers such things once you get to a certain age

filmed on truck - filmed them all

Dylan

Can be really quite good fun going back to places - can make the entry and departure much less stressful

 

[jimmynoboat]

not on Kindle for this edition - I thought yachtsmen might want to write notes in the margins..

Kindle version please!

 

[Gwylan]

Strangford Lough

Wow, thanks Terry!! Don't feel like much of a hero at the moment stuck here in Strangford Lough, panicking about the potential choppy seas when we leave!

Ironic that before you set off sailing around Britain, the advice appears on the whole to be get some experience first, by sailing in the waters off Britain. Same thing isn't it?!

Remember arriving with a 24 foot Achilles in Strangford on very wet Sunday afternoon to find it closed All this after an epic, heavily reefed crossing from Portpatrick

Tide put us against the pontoon and we crashed out after a meal at the Yacht Club

 

[Gwylan]

New horizoni

Kindle version please!

Have to look at a dash to Ireland from your new base!

 

[jimmynoboat]

Well, it's an idea but I still haven't forgotten how high the sea was getting over here in the first place! Which I could not have managed without you. Thanks again for that.

 

[Gwylan]

Well thank you.
But you have got a great boat
Already done Dublin to Holyhead and know how to get in there.

 

[Sturgess]

This Precious Isle

I just wondered if you did get the book and what you thought of it?

 

[Halo]

unless of course you spread it out over a long period - doing it one bit at a time

it changes your sailing and you possibly go sailng less frequebntly - because of the time travelling to the boat - but I am sailing more intensively than I used to

and I am certainly enjoying it a lot more

gets the old adrenalin going at times

and there is nothing like sailing up a new river or estaury for the first time

really not knowing what is around the corner is a thrill beyond price

not often work offers such things once you get to a certain age

filmed on truck - filmed them all

Dylan

Agreed. If you wait you wont do it and may get bored.
Whilst raising a family and working d*mned hard I have sailed right round (apart from the bit between N Foreland and Chicester) . It has taken 25 years - one peice at a time - 4 seasons in Bristol channnel covering Bristol -Cornwall S Wales and S E Ireland 3 Seasons in Conwy covering rest of wales IOM ect 5 Seasons in Scotland (W & E Coasts) , Several years in Whitby and a few in Ipswich. Covered S Coast by crewing on a racing yacht. Yes there is some weekend commuting but I really feel at home in most parts of the Coast .
My message would be just do it however you can- before you get gimped by old age or an accident .
Now looking to cruise the med when I retire in a few years time

 

[chinita]

Kim's book is excellent if you approach the challenge in the same way that he did.

It echoed our trip from Hartlepool to Beaumaris about fifteen years ago. We put into many of the same ports.

SWMBO and I moved house from N Yorks to Anglesey and spent four brilliant weeks up the East Coast, Caledonian Canal, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man then via Conway to our mooring in Beaumaris.

Boat was a Westerly Konsort Duo. Perfect for the job with wheelhouse shelter in the, often, awful conditions. Bilge keel for drying out wherever we could and very easy to sail or motor.

No breakages, no dramas, it would have been no problem continuing on if we did not have other commitments.

I shouldn't think it cost any more than four weeks camping would have.

 

[Sturgess]

2012 a good to moment to sail around Britain

thanks Chinita
I agreed with you - the cost of sailing a boat (rather than motoring) around Britain is comparable to 4 weeks camping - but the experience is "priceless"

 

[marine726]

Are you considering sailing around Britain ?

During the summer of 2007 I undertook my first major sailing adventure. Like so many weekend sailors, over a number of years, I had enjoyed club racing and several brief sailing holidays with friends, but never attempted a substantial solo expedition. Then, aged fifty plus, enacting a type of middle

If you have thought, just do it, life is short, have no time to wait...

 

[Sturgess]

This Precious Isle

I agree - too much thought is a substitute for action.
The sea around Britain is still free for us to explore