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My wife and I are planning a round Britain trip in 2006 aboard our 9 ton Hillyard. We're planning a 4 month trip starting in May. We have found various web pages of other 'rounders', but no books. Does anyone know of a publication or any other source to help with our plans

Also, next month we are dropping our mast to refurbish. We are going to use Coelan. Can anyone give advice has how to stop the product 'going off' in the can if not all is used. That's not long term, only between coats.

Thanks. Happy sailing. CB keep up the good work!

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A good way to stop paint developing a dry skin between uses is to store the can upside down after making sure that the lid is quite secure. Have no idea if it will work with Coelan, though. As you need to apply several coats, there may not be enough left over to be worth worrying about.
Peter.

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Island Race by John McCarthy and Sandi Toksvig - its nor very technical and its all a bit colour supplement.
In Down Channel by McMullen there's a section on careering round - I think he calls it The Jubilee Course.
Did Libby Purves do one - bound to have.
Those old annuals like Roving Commissions are also bound to have some accounts.
Sorry - they're mostly of historical value. Time for something up to date??
best wishes...Spuddy

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Libby Purves , A summers grace.

Jonathan Raban, Coasting.

Both accounts of voayages . You might want to get some pilots for more useful information though!

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There is also a book called blazing paddles about a sea kayak journey round scotland which I enjoyed reading. Cant recall the authors name. Probably mac something. Most of these books are social commentraies rather than just travel journals. You might be better reading them after you have been so that you are left with an open mind prior to going into some places which are nice enough but slated by someone because of a single bad experience they had.

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Robbie

See you have a Millers'. My parents also own one. A 32' Robert Clark. Keel laid down 1939 and completed 1947. They bought her in Blyth in 1972 and has been through with them on the Clyde ever since.

Regards

Donald

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Does the Cruising Association keep records or logs donated by members at their HQ? There would probably be something useful intheir library.
Someone on the scuttlebutt forum is a member, I think.

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I know that one contacts sites like this for encouragement and assistance, but I feel impelled to say what a rotten idea it is . Round Britain is roughly 2,400 miles. Four months is roughly 120 days, i.e. 20 miles a day, close to the rocks [ the crunchy bits, a friend calls them] all the way, regardless of weather, tides, and fog. And in all the world , few places equal Great Britain for all three.
Did you know that Cape Horn is the same latitude in the Southern hemisphere as Glasgow is in the North?
For the same effort you could sail to some where warm, where you haven't been before, and not have to worry about night landfalls, rocks, and getting up at 3a.m. to catch the tide.

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There have been several reports on these forums of people doing it and enjoying it. Isn't part of sailing around the UK, going to places you haven't been before?

You might not enjoy sailing near coastlines and entering new places in the dark, but many think that is an emjoyable pasttime, and well worth while.

Not a rotten idea at all to my mind

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Horses for courses.

I have no desire to undertake long ocean passages but love the bits about coasting that you seem to hate. Just as well we are all different or there wouldn't be room for us all. To my mind giong in and out of places and meeting inhabitants, challenging pilotage and making best use of tide and variable weather are all the interesting bits. It is great that we live somewhere you can sail round rather than just up and down.

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jeanne, wind, rain, high seas, isn't that the point , I'm joking of course! We have had this ambition for some time. All those remote anchorages, clear waters and challenging places to visit, not to mention the Scottish distilliares. Our country has one of the best coastlines around, temperate, rugged and beautiful. To begin a long adventure by visiting our Great Brittish coast seems to me to be the perfect shake down cruise before the Med, Caribbean and east coast of America in a few years time. You have to have a base from which to compare fairly what they have to offer. Besides, if the 'crew' no longer enjoys the challenge of the early mornings, late nights, pilotage and the bash to windward, perhaps it's time for a caravan !!

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If I wanted to circumnavigate my country, Australia, I would have to devote a year to the 23,000 mile trip. Our coastline is spectacularly devoid of the little inlets and harbours which Britain has in profusion. Between Albany [W.A.] and Thevenard [S.A.] there is 900 miles of unbroken cliffs facing the Great Australian Bight. This stretch of water has a reputation shared with Biscay. The tropical part, Brisbane to Perth, has to be done in The Dry to avoid cyclones. Yes, an Around Britain would be a great sail - go for it!
Peter.

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I am sure you will find it fun.
My self and two other Vertues have just returned from a partial round britain. Up the east coast, through the Forth Clyde ( do not do this) through the crinan messed about round Mull and back through the Caledonian. Winds from north on our way up and from the south on the way back.
Lots of rain and many stopovers because of rotten weather. Never the less still a lot of fun, i am glad we did it.
Be ware though that all the small fishing harbours have cotton on to the idea that putting in a pontoon and charging £2.00 per meter is a better way of earning a living than fishing. What ever your budget : Double it.
Our logs will eventually be on www.vertueowners.org.uk.
Pictures are there now under
http://homepages.rya-online.net/vertueowners/Scottish_Trip.htm

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Vertue V17
 
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