Trev's shared with you how our 1st attempt at the Biscay passage was cut short due to seasickness 🤢🤮🤢. We waited until the swell looked as though we'd have a few clear days and headed out. In order to help keep the sickness at bay I had a tablet the night before, so it was …
Captains Blog 9 Lots of Swell? Take a Kwell!
It’s not very far from Les Sables D’Olonne to La Rochelle, but we had a 4 hour window to get into the Bassin des Chalutiers, so we left fairly early. We intended to get the 14:45 bridge lift into the bassin and arrived with plenty of time to spare. Too much in fact, so anchoring …
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Love letter to La Rochelle
Oh La Rochelle, you're a sophisticated, dynamic, artsy, eco city. Packed full of tourists, students, sailors and street entertainers. We passed under the bridge, wondering if our mast would fit & trying to remember the actual height of it. Then radioed for the 14.45 bridge lift to Bassin des Chalutiers. In typical French fashion there …
Facts and stats
Hi there, We were working out some stats if anyone's interested ... We've sailed over 1000 nautical miles since we left Weymouth There are 1500 miles to travel to get to the southern part of Portugal We've day sailed for all of our journeys, around 4-7 hours each trip. With the odd trip being a …
Early morning guests
We had an early morning sail from Trebeurden to Roscoff and were joined by some visitors https://youtu.be/nztk5EtcWMA
Captains Blog 6
What’s That Swell? And so the day of departure from my beloved Maggoty Bank had arrived. The drizzly dull morning summed up my mood, but first mate was on good form to keep things upbeat. Nothing was moving as we passed Falmouth apart from an old wooden thing named Gypsy Moth IV. She soon backed …
Pretty early morning
These are the moments you see with a pre-dawn start. So peaceful and puts a brilliant spin on the day.
Big weather
It was supposed to be 15-20 knots of wind all day, I had nice ham for sandwiches, we'd average around 5-6 knots all day. It didn't work out like that At one point we were having consistent 30-36 knots of wind hammering our poor Gianti & her new sails. With gusts of 40 knots and …
Off anchor … jobs
We came off anchor and into a marina in Falmouth to get our AIS installed. This means we can see and be seen by all boats who also have it installed. Brilliant news when it's dark or foggy. You can cyber stalk us and see exactly where we are using the link below & searching …
England, Ireland, Scotland, France … nope Penzance
After a fab few days exploring Maggoty Bank, Truro and Trelissick, we decided to take a day trip to Penzance, to pick up my stupid skin products. I can't recommend Pure Nuff Stuff enough ... 4-5 ingredients per product, zero preservatives and Emily (pictured) is so, so lovely. She's really interested in solving skin issues …
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