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In two minds. The west of the UK round the top then through the Caly Canal and return to Plymouth OR the Azores and back to Plymouth. COVID might be the deciding factor.
What are your plans for next year?
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rotrax
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East coast of Ireland again, including the Classic TT in the IOM. At least a month in Strangford Lough. One of our favourite places. Plus it is full of lobsters!
Wansworth
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It’s a bit damp but there are lots of really nice bright days and the Riad bajas have a micro climate that it’s not that cold.,still if you must rush off to the flesh pots?
Kelpie
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Well if we wanted rain we would just stay in Scotland.
I'm led to believe that the Portuguese coast becomes pretty wild over the winter, with the swell regularly closing the ports. As if there isn't enough to worry about with the Orcas...
Wansworth
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Yes your right
sailaboutvic
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I don't think the Orcas are worried ?
Wansworth
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There was a white shark in Coruna according to local news
TiggerToo
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I look forward to hearing the reports. This sounds like my plan for the following year (2023), with the Azores spliced in between IoS and Ireland etc (NB over several years after that)... after Norway it will be the Baltic (Sweden, Finland and St Petersburg, in that order)
Laminar Flow
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We "did" the Baltic a couple of years ago when we kept the boat in Holland. We were unfortunately rather late in the season. The Baltic was rough business and in Sweden they start folding up the sidewalks September 1st (all those boats going the other way in the Kiel canal should have given us a clue). We enjoyed the trip immensely, far from any summer crowds, and it left us with a taste for more. My wife has a hankering for the Gotheburg canal ... we shall see.
Last trip was from Holland back to Brittany, via Dieppe - Newhaven (crossed that one firmly off our must-do-again list), the South Coast, Chichester, Wright, Dartmouth, the CIs etc.
I have been trying to get a sense of where to go in Ireland and Scotland. Skye is definitely on the agenda as my wife has a romantic fixation with the place, having spent an, apparently memorable, summer stacking peat there in her youth.
Suggestions would be welcome, videos worth watching etc. (just not the "two sailing brothers", please, remarkable only for their complete sense of cluelessness and like watching a couple of prepubescent 12 year olds mucking about on a boat. In spite of Navionics, I got the impression that (at least) half the time they had no idea were they were.)
capnsensible
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Haven't finished this year yet!
capnsensible
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Should you push on round cape st vincent, you will be able to sail a lot through the winter.
Kelpie
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Skye has its attractions, all well documented, but as a resident I don't find it a great cruising ground. Maybe I've just got bored of it. The Uists offer far more anchoring options and better beaches.
If you've made it this far, I'd strongly recommend getting out the west of Harris/Lewis if you can get the right conditions.
Kelpie
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Thanks, that's the idea. Annoyingly we've had to come home for a bit and have lost three weeks, so can feel the season running out on us. May not have time to fully appreciate the remaining rias.
roaringgirl
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Last season: Atlantic Spain, Portugal, Madeira, Canaries, St Lucia, SVG, Antigua, Sint Maarten, Bonaire, Curacao, Bonaire.
This season: Bonaire, Panama, Galapagos, French Polynesia (Marqueses, Tuamotus, Society Islands), Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand.
This season: Bonaire, Panama, Galapagos, French Polynesia (Marqueses, Tuamotus, Society Islands), Cook Islands, Niue, Tonga, Fiji, New Zealand.
Spanjaard
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Lovely to see that some of you know and praise as Rias of Galicia. My motherland.
roaringgirl
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We loved it there, I wish we had had longer to enjoy them!
Kelpie
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How confident are you that the Pacific will be open for visitors?
sailaboutvic
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That's an interesting post ,
I don't know how anyone knows what's going to be open or when anything going to be open/close next year ,
We still trying to figure out what's open now how long it's going to stay open for before the rules change again.
We not even going to book any flights back to see family till a few days before , which is going to be costly but at less we won't get caught out .
We won't arrive in our winter stop over marina for at less a month and I lay money most if ask will say they got no idea just waiting to see what's going on .
People where going on and on about Brexit some time back , Brexit as nothing on Covid .
Wansworth
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N
not so damp as It used to be?
roaringgirl
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About as confident as I was in July 2020 that we'd be able to sail down Spain, Portugal, Madeira, Canaries & Caribbean. Actually, maybe slightly more confident as covid is better understood and countries have already been through lockdowns and started vaccination programs. French Polynesia opened to vaccinated cruisers in August '21; Fiji is open; don't know about Tonga the Cooks or Niue. NZ is closed, but I am expecting it to be open by Oct '22.
