I am still anchored in New Quay, braved a passing storm at anchor and have been deciding on what to do this winter. The Atlantic storm passed to the South through the English Channel but any Northerly winds can whip up a big swell in New Quay. I watched the forecast carefully in case it […]
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Finally the winds have returned to more Southerly so we have returned to anchor off New Quay. Aberystwyth marina is lovely and quiet and extremely convenient for on shore facilities, I would highly recommend it to any visiting yacht. We nearly got caught out with the tides on departing, we lost all track out time
For the last week, I have had Ffion living aboard as a guest. We originally planned to take her out for a day or two driving her car to get experience and practice for her driving test. I taught her to drive about 6 or 7 years ago but she failed the test due to
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Due to continuing Northerly winds, we are still at Aberystwyth and likely to be here until next week at least. We have still managed to do some sailing though. We sailed up the coast on Wednesday, very light winds meant that we went backwards in the current several times but we used that time to
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I have arrived back in New Quay, made an expensive mistake, spent time talking with and getting help from amazing friends and family and ready to laze away the summer in this fantastic place. The trip up from Milford Haven was mostly uneventful with light winds but St David’s Head was a little exciting. Winds,
I have done some miles since my last blog post, I am now in Milford Haven in the lovely Dale anchorage. I have struggled at times with low and intermittent wind speeds but its all part of learning about getting the best from the boat. I have not been ashore now for a week and
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I am moving west at a reasonable pace and hope to go around lands end today. A major milestone in my trip to West Wales. I’ve seen some stunning coastlines but had a couple of small setbacks. Setback one is my wind speed measuring device (anemometer) has been unreliable and as its at the top
The last few days sailing have been downwind in light Easterly winds. I have learned a lot about how the boat handles and have used the whisker and preventers a lot. I am still not happy I am rigging them the best way, I am still tinkering to make it easier single handed. I am
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The day started with a great downwind sail in a light breeze and ended with no wind and motoring nearly 2 hours into Brixham. Some highlights were: Using the wind vane steering downwind, rigging a preventer, using the whisker pole and sailing wing to wing. Meeting a pod of common dolphins. And some things I
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While sailing into Weymouth today a motor yacht came up from behind me on my starboard side, he was on a similar heading to me put our paths were merging. He was under motor power, I was under sail so I had priority. He will change course or speed in a minute or two…. Has