Chores in the morning, including Stew and Joe delving deep into the bilges to try and find why we were taking on water in Ramsgate. The wind had picked up suddenly in the night, and we had started rolling quite a bit. We were in the outer harbour, and the Read more…
Today is my 3Xth birthday. I celebrated by having a long hot shower, and doing the laundry. You quickly run out of clean clothes on the boat, so these are a luxury item. For Stew’s 3Xth, he was half way up the world’s tallest mountain. I remember thinking what an Read more…
The aim for today was to get from Harwich, where we finished on Friday’s epic 100km day, to Clacton-on-Sea, with the aim of getting around to Ramsgate on Monday. With this plan, we left Shotley Marina around 08:30 and headed back to the beach we’d previously finished on. There was Read more…
No wind today, so a day off the water. We got our chores done quickly in the morning – the boat got a wash down; starboard oil filters changed; and gear rinsed. We were rewarded by a lovely afternoon in Ipswich with Stew’s Dad. The highlight, the homemade oatmeal cookiesIn Read more…
Sea Paling was one of the coolest places we stayed, at least from an engineering perspective. As part of the sea defences 9 man-made reefs have been built ontop of a pre-existing sand bar to help stop errosion. The first 4, built in 1995, stand 2.8m above high water and Read more…
We woke this morning to a millpond, we could see the whole reflection of the boat on the surface of the water. Giving into the fact there was no chance in kiting, we instead rigged up a wake-board towline from the handle of an old, very sharp, boat hook and Read more…
No wind in the forecast, and no wind arrived. It was a beautiful day to be on the boat and warm enough to break out the shorts and also the drone. In the afternoon Joe and Stew walked the 3miles into Skegness – meaning beard shapped headland in Norse. It Read more…
Today we left Hull’s marina gates for the first time, leaving our home for the last week. We made our way down to Cleethorpes, taking about the same time it took us to drive on Saturday . We’d earmarked the day to practice rescue drills and what a perfect day Read more…
Hi everyone! I’m Oscar, and I’ll be helping the Kite Britain team for the start of their journey. Today I received my first kite lesson from Islay while Stew and Joe squeezed into their wetsuits to stay warm in the frigid surf. It was an incredible experience feeling the power Read more…
Having spent the last 3 days on the boat getting everything to work and getting accustomed to all the boat systems we needed a day out. We headed to Cleethorpes, 10 miles down the road, which like Greenwich is also on the Prime Meridian, at Read more…