Kukri
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I have heard that; the chances of it being true are in inverse proportion to the reputation of the chandlery. Bad chandlers often say it; good ones never do..
What is you sailing ambition?
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I have heard that; the chances of it being true are in inverse proportion to the reputation of the chandlery. Bad chandlers often say it; good ones never do..
mjcoon
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I thought they told you they don't have what you want because "There's no call for it Sir" when you are standing there calling for it!
Mike.
johnalison
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You've all the wrong idea entirely. A proper sailor goes into every chandler he passes and buys everything he might need at some future time and then returns to the boat and stows it away.
westhinder
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Round Britian via the Shetland Isles and Fair Isle (I have cousins on Fair Isle and Shetland)
Spend a summer in the Western Isles of Scotland (a seperate cruise to the Round Britain)
Ireland
Scillies and Channel Islands
Find places in France and Belgium that we actually like
The Netherlands
!
No quarrel with you there, just a suggestion for Belgium: go to Ostend harbour, take the train (the station is less than 3 minutes' walk) to Ghent. If you do not like Ghent, I rest my case.
Alternatively, let the flood tide carry you up the Schelde river to Antwerp, lock into the Willemdok Marina in the centre of town, not bad either.
Bru
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Or both
To be fair to France and Belgium, we've only been once and managed just one port of call in each country where we spent far too long due to weather and got bored. Bit of a case of being in the wrong places at the wrong time and for too long! We'll be back
Robert Wilson
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Great thread. I'm enjoying the various posts and aspirations, realising how many share the "dreams of my youth".
Having "done" one of my dreams last year, UK solo circumnavigation, I'm not sure what my next dream is - except get Khamsin's paint-job finished and all the maintenance work completed. It's been a lonnnng season "out-of-the-water" and the list keeps getting longer too!
I suppose my next dream is to leave Loch Ewe, turn right this time, and see where the wind and weather take me. Shetland, Faroes, Scandinavia. And although probably impossible and unwise, Murmansk where my uncle was killed in April 1945, to drop a wreath in the water.
Having "done" one of my dreams last year, UK solo circumnavigation, I'm not sure what my next dream is - except get Khamsin's paint-job finished and all the maintenance work completed. It's been a lonnnng season "out-of-the-water" and the list keeps getting longer too!
I suppose my next dream is to leave Loch Ewe, turn right this time, and see where the wind and weather take me. Shetland, Faroes, Scandinavia. And although probably impossible and unwise, Murmansk where my uncle was killed in April 1945, to drop a wreath in the water.
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mdonnelly
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I've arranged to take the whole month of July off next year to sail round Ireland. It's my 50th birthday treat to myself.
Tintin
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NorthRising
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Norway
dylanwinter
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I have spent a lot of time in Norway exploring the coast with google earth
my goodness it looks like a marvelous place to sail....... in the summer of course
Oldfellah
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As an oldie who has just bought his first boat I need to be a little less ambitious than you younger folk. Since buying my Moody 31 in Holland I have brought her back via Nederlands inland waterways, Ostend, Ramsgate and thus to the Medway with two friends aboard. I then sailed to Dunkirk, Ostend and Ramsgate once more, this time with one crew and my ambition for next year is to sail her single handed after which I might just follow the intrepid Dylan and try sailing round the great British coastline for a season or two. It's all great fun I must say.
DownWest
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Nice to see a lot of low count posters on this thread. (perhaps the high count ones have done it all? 
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Myself, get the boat, that is a bunch of frames in the shed, finished in time to sail in company with another boat to the next Morbihan festival in May '17. That will do for the time being...
)Myself, get the boat, that is a bunch of frames in the shed, finished in time to sail in company with another boat to the next Morbihan festival in May '17. That will do for the time being...
phanakapan
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Where to start? Ticked a few boxes already, with a smidge of single handing, Scillies, Ireland; a world circumnavigation including Galápagos Islands, Cape of Good Hope and remote places like St Helena. What next? A GB circumnavigation for sure, but possibly with a loop up to the Baltic and/ or Norway etc - I'd really like to do some high latitude sailing, see the northern lights and a polar bear.... I'd also love to do some tall ship or old gaffer type of sailing.
Oh and some single handing, perhaps in a tiddler....
Oh and some single handing, perhaps in a tiddler....
ronmarson
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Don't try to do to much. In Ireland the next harbour is only a little bit away and it has a great pub with singing and a warm welcome, and the moorings are usually free or very reasonable.
A month will 'do' about a third of it, then come back next year and do another third.
mdonnelly
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Yes, doing it slowly is my next ambition when I retire at 55!
Barnacle Bill
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Unrealistic: to sail round Cape Horn.
Realistic: to sail from Ireland to the Azores and back with 1, 2 or 3 of my sons.
Realistic: to sail from Ireland to the Azores and back with 1, 2 or 3 of my sons.
Daedelus
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I am proud to be in the company of such a bunch (not sarcasm incidentally) my ambitions are a bit more modest: to get the boat off her berth with no damage or concerns to anyone and get back the same way.
FullCircle
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Ambition is to endure the next 18 months of work until I can afford to retire properly, then spend 6 months of each year on the boat. The plan will entirely depend on growing confidence in Mrs FC as we go along. We have no real destination plan, but it is unlikely to include getting cold. The boat is as ready as it is possible to be, all projects now complete, and high cost maintenance all done for a few years.
geem
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Around the world. Already made it to the Caribbean. Pacific in a couple of years I reckon then see what transpires. No rush and only loose plans.
Saguday
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Mrs Saguday (who is not originally of this parish) has long wanted to do a slow circumnavigation of the British Isles. In fact, we were discussing this idea around the time Dylan appeared on here and took off to do that very thing. I've always wanted to sail to the Baltic, in particular to visit Gdynia from where the ship my family took to emigrate to Canada set off. Beyond that, Ireland slowly, the Scillies and then anywhere warm. We have an unfinished trip to make covering the southern half of the US East Coast (having once had a delightful sailing sabbatical exploring the mid-Atlantic up to Maine) and perchance to visit the Caribbean, but I am doubtful we will ever achieve this now. Like many here, the actual destination itself is not so important, it's a big world with many wonderful places to visit. The real goal is to get back to the point we were at 10 years ago, when we could wake up any day on board and decide on a whim whether to stay, or go, and if to go then to go wherever we wished.
