daveyjones
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Apologies if this is an overdone topic, but if you were planning a circumnavigation of the British Isles, would you go clockwise or anti-clockwise, and why? In what month would you choose to leave?
which way round the UK?
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Woodentop
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On St George´s Day...
... And drive on the left.
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... And drive on the left.
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Sgeir
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Speaking as one who has not done it.....
For me, if I ever wish to try it, clockwise. But some other folk say it's better the other way, anti-clockwise. But I'd go for the clock (currents, winds etc).
Being a bit slow in the sailing department, and also perhaps wishing to stay a few days in the most wonderful places with real hand-knitted peeps, I'd say leave in May and plan to complete in late August. That means that you should get there sometime in September.
Sounds a great trip!
BTW: Might be worthwhile checking out the CA website at http://www.cruising.org.uk/. They are a good lot, very friendly members with loads of experience and info.
For me, if I ever wish to try it, clockwise. But some other folk say it's better the other way, anti-clockwise. But I'd go for the clock (currents, winds etc).
Being a bit slow in the sailing department, and also perhaps wishing to stay a few days in the most wonderful places with real hand-knitted peeps, I'd say leave in May and plan to complete in late August. That means that you should get there sometime in September.
Sounds a great trip!
BTW: Might be worthwhile checking out the CA website at http://www.cruising.org.uk/. They are a good lot, very friendly members with loads of experience and info.
Shanty
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Why not compromise - do half clockwise, & half anticlockwise?
ShipsWoofy
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The thing that gets me, reading the media, most people who do the trip miss Wales and go around Ireland. They miss the east coast of Ireland and the west coast from Milford to Portpatrick.
Which is a shame I think.
Which is a shame I think.
daveyjones
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That's a good point, so I'll have to do a figure of eight I suppose! Is there an entry in the record books for that?
BrendanS
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and even more zoom down the east coast of UK missing the worst bits,quite rightly
Sgeir
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Aye Woofy man, you mak' a fair point, but in doing so, do you not believe that you are also advising these itinerant sailors to avoid the finest parts of north-west England, about which, so I have been informed, is the very finest sailing and fishing in the whole of England?
Toutvabien
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When are you leaving Dave? I am off towads Dingle this Saturday.
Paul.
Paul.
AngusMcDoon
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If you go over the top rather than through the Caledonian canal, Pentland Firth (and to a lesser extent the waters further North too) is easier going Eastwards than Westwards, which suggests clockwise.
daveyjones
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In about 6 or 7 years, as I have just started work on my ferro boat! Still, we can dream. Don't run into the Fastnet Rock!
snowleopard
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Done both. Nothing in it - you'll be slogging to windward one way or another.
If you had steady SW wind, clockwise it would make most sense as it's easier to beat down the north sea in the lee of the land.
Go in summer.
If you had steady SW wind, clockwise it would make most sense as it's easier to beat down the north sea in the lee of the land.
Go in summer.
fireball
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No - there'd be nothing left ... of the rock! /forums/images/graemlins/tongue.gif