Mainland
17th to 20th June No, we're not back on 'the mainland', or the Sooth Island as they seem to call it here. Mainland is the name of the...
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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.
Read the blog to see how it's going!
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I’m undertaking this circumnavigation for the experience and the challenge, not primarily as a charity fundraiser. However, if you feel moved to make a donation, I have set up a Justgiving page to support the RNLI in their vital work of saving lives at sea: https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/mark-browse.
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Wick to Stromness
16th June 2021 The Pentland Firth is one of the most notorious stretches of water in the British Isles. The tide moving between the...
Wick
14th to 16th June 2021 We stayed three nights in Wick, waiting for the weather to be just right for crossing the Pentland Firth up to...
A day of contrasts
13 June 2021 When we came back to the boat in mid June, after a couple of weeks at home, Peterhead had been transformed. Last time we had...
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...
Bringing us up to date
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...
The plan
I started to plan the trip well before I knew it was really going to happen.
Why two summers?
How to sail for 100 days if you have a full-time job.
Two summers on Goldfinch
What possessed me to decide to sail round Britain?
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