Stonehaven and Peterhead
27 May 2021 We left Arbroath in the morning, as soon as the marina gates opened. In the outer harbour we filled up with diesel. Three...
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Two Summers
Sailing round Britain 2021-22
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Over the next two summers I am planning to sail round Britain in two-week chunks, starting in May 2021.
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28 May 2021 Previously on this blog, we last saw Goldfinch leaving Tynemouth on 22nd May. What's been happening since then? Amble I had...
Life on board
Life on board is broadly divided into two phases: passage-making and sitting in harbour. Apart from the Wells to Whitby stretch, most of...
Whitby to Tynemouth
20th May 2021 We had planned to stay in Whitby two nights, hoping to explore the town a bit more. But the best laid plans... The weather...
Wells to Whitby
18th May This was going to be the big one: 110 miles in one go. There are yacht-friendly places between Norfolk and Yorkshire, but not...
First ports of call
By stopping at Lowestoft we have already ticked off one of the key milestones of a circumnavigation of Britain, because it is the...
The voyage begins
'Ipswich Lock, this is Goldfinch, over.' I've lost count of the number of times I've made the call to ask the lock at Ipswich to let us...
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