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Me and My Vertue
22nd December 2024 When I sailed into Salcombe during the summer I had the pleasure of meeting up with Roger Robinson who runs the Vertue Yachts website. It is a great resource for anyone interested in Vertue yachts or indeed any closely related small boats. While we were nattering Roger suggested that it would be…
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Marlow Half Marathon 2024
3rd November 2024 Reading Time: Two minutes It’s always the same story – never enough training! Last year I had just returned from the North West Passage and this year I had simply been sailing all summer. I don’t know why, but going for a run after a long sail simply doesn’t appeal nearly as…
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St Katharine Docks Classic Boat Festival 2024
7th and 8th September 2024 Reading time: Five Minutes Not only did we make it, but we even had a day in hand. It was handy to have some time up our sleeves because I made rather hash of hoisting the “Dressed Overall” flags. They need to be in a specific order. The rumour is…
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The Dash from Lymington to London
Friday 6th September Reading Time: 5 Minutes I had enrolled to enter the St Katharine Docks Classic Boat Festival which is held over the weekend of 7th and 8th of September. What I hadn’t realised was that the last lock-in was on the Thursday high tide. With the wind forecast as easterly, we had task…
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Falmouth to Lymington
Reading Time: 8 minutes 16th August 2024 Malpas to Brixham Sumara had been left on a buoy near to Malpas while I returned to London for a month. The boat was well looked after by our friend Jo. When we arrived to retrieve Sumara, she managed to find us a space on the walk-ashore pontoon…
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Plymouth to Falmouth
11th July 2024 Reading Time: Five Minutes We did eat in the Edgcumbe Arms, but only just. Their excellent Sunday carvery was closed for the evening, but they managed to rustle up some doggy boxes from the leftovers. Mine was rather good but I’m not sure everyone agreed. Paul and I got the last ferry…
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From Weymouth to Plymouth
Reading Time: 15 minutes 28th June 2024 We left Weymouth at 10:30 for the long route via the east of The Shambles and then south of the race off Portland Bill. It was a spring tide so I didn’t fancy the biscuit toss route inside the race. Even several miles south of the Bill it…
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Weymouth
Reading Time: 5 minutes 22nd June 2024 We arrived at Weymouth at 11:30 GMT and were allocated berth D4. Normally finding a berth requires a search of the pontoon ends with binoculars to spot the minute signs to denote “D pontoon” and then a guess to wonder whether you travel down the near side or…
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Beaulieu to Weymouth via Swanage
Reading time: Five miutes 16th June 2024 Beaulieu – and it certainly is a good place We decided to hide up the Beaulieu River for a few days while the strong westerly winds were blowing. It also happened to be The Round the Island Race at the weekend so we felt Cowes would be packed…
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Marinas and Harbours – Walton on the Naze to Portsmouth 2024
14th June 2024 Reading Time: 10 minutes As a reminder to myself, and maybe to help others cruising the South Coast of England, I thought I would review some of the marinas and harbours that we are stopping at. We are using a lot of marinas because we have a dog onboard and it simplifies…