Round Britain,by motor boat.

[Bajansailor]

One of the fundamental laws of Naval Architecture is that the joy you get from a boat is in inverse proportion to it’s size.

Absolutely - I have seen this so many times.

Ask @Bajansailor, he’ll tell you.

He’s a proper naval architect.

Well, Bajansailor has a naval architecture background, but ended up in marine surveying. Which is good fun generally - you never know what is going to come up next - one downside seems to be that I so often get called out at 2 or 3 in the morning for a final draft survey on a ship (they never seem to finish loading or discharging at a sensible time! )
@Frogmogman has the same background as me (we were at Uni together many moons ago) but he sensibly saw the light and opened a very successful pub in France instead.

 

[ylop]

I always imagined, never having own such a vessel, that motoring in a fairly large, comfortable motorboat would be a similar experience to driving a motorhome around the county - at about 12mph, all the way.

Significant differences though:
1. You can anchor anywhere sensible whenever takes your fancy without upsetting the locals, or discovering that there’s so many instagrammers you can’t squeeze you
2. You don’t have a queue of traffic behind you.

so probably much less stressful
On the other hand you probably have no way of easily travelling even 15 miles in land to visit something of interest.

 

[gordmac]

If I was to do that I would go for a Botnia Targa. Decent seaworthy hull, good range ( a 35 would do best part of 1000nm pottering along about 7kn with high 20s cruise option reducing that significantly) Ok accommodation on the 30 upwards. In a hurry, Levi Corsar would be fun. Don't want the option of making decent progress? Seaward or similar SD hull, hard on fuel though.

 

[TwoFish]

I read a book by a chap recounting his solo trip round Scotland by sea-kayak, camping on a beach (or rocky ledge!) each night. It was very tough going (aside from the kayaking!).

He said each night on the beach if you didn't have mosquitos (or was it sandflies?) then it was because it was blowing a gale and sheeting it down with rain. Then there were the days hanging around when it was too rough, even for him, to set out.

He did have his girlfriend meet him ashore a couple of times, and had help from locals at times, especially when, having got somewhere near Oban (travelling anti-clockwise) he needed a serious repair to his hull where it had been worn away by being dragged across beaches etc.

He did have some magical times, felt he'd learnt a bit about himself, and raised money for charity, but it was way beyond my endurance or inclination.

I have a vague recollection he later paddled round Ireland, and at one time was a nature warden/ranger on the West Coast of Scotland.

p.s. of course these days you'd need a bigger boat in order to be able to take your video camera, editing gear, satellite gear to upload you YouTube videos, and bikini clad companion .

Perhaps a little off-topic for a thread about motoring round the UK, but for anyone who enjoys the idea of a roughing-it-on-the beach (mostly) circumnavigation, this book is a great read.

Long Standing Ambition: the first round Britain windsurf: The first solo round Britain windsurf: Amazon.co.uk: Dunnett, Jono: 9780995778207: Books