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 …
Caption time ..
We've had a great few days in Dittisham & Salcombe ... with a huge walk and lots of food. On a day out we took the tender up to Totnes ... what a quirky, hippy little place it is. If you want a hand made, organic, locally produced anything ... you'll get it there! Whilst …
Weymouth and beyond … the solar shower makes a return
Evening all, It's been a while ... We managed to leave the safety and comfort of Weymouth and start the adventure properly off shore power and everything!! We had zero wind so motored from Weymouth, across Lyme Bay and took a mooring buoy in Fishcombe Cove, just outside of Brixham. 2 nights there (absolutely free) …
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Suns out … sails up
We played around with the new Go Pro on our adventures today ... click the link below to see the video of our first sail. quik.gopro.com/v/2RLKRNLFeK/
Our Big Boaty Adventure 