Round Britain... Where would you choose to start

[Ohlin Karcher]

This thread is trending towards ever more grandiose routes around Britain to include Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and the Outer Hebrides. Now even the Isle of Wight is to be passed to the South.

In the interests of balance I have often contemplated a circumnavigation of The Kingdom of Wessex in something like a Mk1 Cornish Crabber 24. The route would be the English Channel, Thames, Kennet & Avon, Bristol Channel, Barnstaple, think there is a canal down there. Short road truck haul over to Exeter then home. Has this been done before?

Charlie Stock might have done it in Shoal Waters? The trip has definitely been suggested before.
A friend ( Youtube channel: Sailing Embla) is thinking of circumnavigating Norway, as it is apparently possible to travel from the Norway/Russia border in the Arctic, to the Baltic down a Russian river. I don't even know if it's even been done before! I can claim Sheppey..

 

[westhinder]

A friend ( Youtube channel: Sailing Embla) is thinking of circumnavigating Norway, as it is apparently possible to travel from the Norway/Russia border in the Arctic, to the Baltic down a Russian river. I don't even know if it's even been done before! I can claim Sheppey..

It has certainly been done in the other sense, entering the Russian inland waterways at St. Petersburg and out again somewhere in the Arctic. An Englishman did it in his Rival, and if my memory serves me well, he was part of an organized flotilla going through Russia.

 

[Daydream believer]

In the interests of balance I have often contemplated a circumnavigation of The Kingdom of Wessex in something like a Mk1 Cornish Crabber 24.

I do not know a bout the Kingdom of Wessex; but Tony Smith, of Creek sailor fame, took Charles Stock's old boat, Shoal Waters, round a lump of Essex. He went down the River Lea, along the Thames, through the Havengore bridge, Out of the Crouch & up the Blackwater.

 

[Daydream believer]

. I don't even know if it's even been done before! I can claim Sheppey..

My son has been round Sheppey a couple of times in a Phantom.
(& he did not bother anchoring either:encouragement

 

[[70521]]

This thread is trending towards ever more grandiose routes around Britain to include Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and the Outer Hebrides. Now even the Isle of Wight is to be passed to the South.

In the interests of balance I have often contemplated a circumnavigation of The Kingdom of Wessex in something like a Mk1 Cornish Crabber 24. The route would be the English Channel, Thames, Kennet & Avon, Bristol Channel, Barnstaple, think there is a canal down there. Short road truck haul over to Exeter then home. Has this been done before?

Is the Isle of Wright not part of the UK?

I understand your proposed circumnavigation of the Kingdom of Wessex has been done in the past. Barnstaple has no canal, but is but a short road link to the Grand Western Canal at Tiverton. There is also the Exeter Ship Canal.

 

[Thistle]

This thread is trending towards ever more grandiose routes around Britain to include Denmark, Sweden, Ireland and the Outer Hebrides. Now even the Isle of Wight is to be passed to the South.
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No, no, no! Departing from the east coast of Scotland, leave Denmark, Belgium, France and Spain on the left. Continue leaving the Americas, Canada, Greenland and Iceland on the left. Return leaving Norway on the left. You've circumnavigated the globe!

 

[Daydream believer]

No, no, no! Departing from the east coast of Scotland, leave Denmark, Belgium, France and Spain on the left. Continue leaving the Americas, Canada, Greenland and Iceland on the left. Return leaving Norway on the left. You've circumnavigated the globe!

No, not really, you could just have gone clock wise round Sky & they would have all been on the left & you would have had a nice weekend trip.:encouragement:

 

[lw395]

No, no, no! Departing from the east coast of Scotland, leave Denmark, Belgium, France and Spain on the left. Continue leaving the Americas, Canada, Greenland and Iceland on the left. Return leaving Norway on the left. You've circumnavigated the globe!

You can circumnavigate from the inside, by doing lap of a reservoir.
It has just as much value as an achievement, i.e. entirely what you make of it.

 

[pandos]

There’s a pub near London on the North Side of the Thames in the middle of a tank farm. It’s ancient. Low beams thatched worn floors and real ale.
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map reference please??