With the wind in all day, and us having decided in advance that today wasn’t going to be a travelling day – due to the upcoming storm – we had a slow start. Despite it being a Tuesday, it felt more like a Saturday with a long lie in and Read more…
Today was a day for “I spy”, we saw everything! What a day! We started off in Marazion, anchored in the shadow of St. Michael’s Mount, then heading off around the corner towards Porthcurno we approached the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the largest warship ever built for the UK Navy, at Read more…
We spent the night on anchor right next to St Michaels Mount. With no wind in the morning we headed to the Mount to explore. The Island is connected by a causeway for 4 out of every 12hrs. It is still a private house but they have opened up most Read more…
Our start point this morning was Fraggle Rock. Some of us will remember this from childhood as the popular TV series with the same name. For some reason I’d remembered it as being underneath a tree not a lighthouse. We were all humming the theme tune as we approached two Read more…
First thing I did last night when we arrived in Falmouth was laundry. It’s worrying when the highlight of the day is clean clothes and a hot shower – sometimes in life its the small luxuries that make the difference. We have a limited water supply, and generally want to Read more…
Today we had our friend Howard join us kiting from Salcombe to Plymouth. Great to have him along, and the nice guy that he is, he even wrote the blog for us today. Howard, you’re welcome back anytime. I was hugely pleased to be invited to join Stew & Islay Read more…
Both wind and tide lined up for an early start. First light was 4:15, so we set our alarms for 3:30, enough time to make porridge and get ready before setting off. This was our earliest start yet and only our second passage in the dark (the first being a Read more…
No wind again today, so rather than sit and wait we headed across the bay to explore. Leaving Portland we past the fleet of Wayfarers racing in their nationals, a competition which they’d been trying to hold all weekend. Durdles Door is a sea arch formed in the limestone. It Read more…
Glorious sunshine, but no wind and the wrong tides. The tides past Portland Bill as some of the strongest in the UK and at 7knts we cannot go against them or launch a kite in them easily. We need to wait for slack water which today is 3pm. The forecast Read more…
We awoke to thick fog and no wind. We had to wait until 1pm for a favourable tide to go past Portland Bill and by 11am the fog have lifted. We headed out with little wind but a promising forecast and arrived at our waypoint. Thats when the fog returned. Read more…