Late in 2025 and in anticipation of the web site disappearing at some point, probably in the fairly distant future, I have converted the cruise threads into PDF documents so that I'll have a continuing record, I have not made any significant edits or additions.
Until the 2019 JBC they are fairly brief and get quite long from 2020. The later ones can be somewhat easier to read as a PDF, but the links to slide shows did not carry over. Nor did the videos which is more significant from 2023/4 as I started taking more, for these the web version is to be preferred.
Photographs (well over 7,000 including pictures of the boat and a few others) and most videos can be found in Flikr albums but without the links you have to find the appropriate album (assuming there is one), they are in the order loaded not taken but are clearly marked.
PDFs can be viewed on-line or downloaded. Either way should still work if on line. I may later put a few more links to Flickr for more videos but probably not for the slide shows because of the effort required and the likely hood of the Flickr library disappearing with the web site or before; with thousands of images it has to be paid for and with card storage at less than £10 per Tera Byte I now have multiple copies.
Summaries and links to blog threads can be found below these links or, for most, above this page.
WIP, and some proof reading required, especially on the 2025 threads, a job I leave till winter.
- 2018 Gosport - Alderney (September).
- 2019 Gosport - Alderney (March).
- 2019 Gosport - St Mawes in company with Suhaile.
- 2019 Gosport - Alderney (May).
- 2019 Gosport - Plymouth and The Jester Baltimore Challenge.
- 2019 Gosport - St Mawes (July).
- 2019 Hamble - Fowey (September).
- 2020 Hamble - Round GB clockwise.
- 2021 Hamble - Round GB anti-clockwise.
- 2021 Hamble - A shorter than planned summer cruise.
- 2021 Hamble - Late summer cruise to the Isles of Scilly.
- 2022 Hamble - S. Uist
- 2022 Hamble - Celtic Sea Circuit.
- 2023 Hamble - St Kilda.
- 2023 Hamble - The Isles of Scilly and an emergency dash home.
- 2024 Hamble - Orkney and another dash home this time via Milford Haven.
- 2024 Milford - Late summer cruise.
- 2025 Milford - Lerwick, Shetland.
- 2025 Lerwick - via Stornoway to Milford with a third early return.
- 2025 Milford - Padstow.
Most of the trips to Cornwall before August 2021 would have gone on to The Isles of Scilly if the weather had been kind!
Annual Statistics are here, statistics for most cruises are shown at the end of the relevant thread.
| Old Grimsby from St Helen's Pool when I finally got there in 2021. |
| One of 4 thunder storms before I was blown out of the Swanage anchorage. |
- No blog entries:
- Round The Island from the Hamble.
- Hamble to Swanage. Slide show:
2018
- Round The Island from the Hamble.
- Hamble to Swanage. Slide show:
- No blog entries:
- Gosport - Helford (May). Slide show:
- Gosport - St Mawes (July), Slide show:
- Gosport - Newlyn (August), slide show:
| Braye Harbour, Alderney September 2018. Sancerre on the extreme right. Burhou in the near distance with the Swinge between. |
2019
| Fort Clonque, Alderney March 2019. In the distance Ortac (right) and The Casquets. |
- Gosport - Alderney (March)
- Gosport - St Mawes (April)
- Gosport - Alderney (May)
- Gosport - Plymouth & The Jester Challenge to Baltimore (IRE) (June)
- Gosport - St Mawes (July / August)
- Hamble - Aborted trip to Alderney, no post as I only got as far as Osborne Bay (August)
- Hamble - Fowey (September).
2020
| Rounding Cape Wrath in 2020. |
2021
| The harbour and castle, The Holy Island of Lindisfarne, 2021. |
- Hamble round GB anti-clockwise via Stromness and Stornoway (April-July).
- Hamble - St Mawes (July).
- Hamble - The Isles of Scilly (August / September),
2022
| The Outer Hebrides. |
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| The Celtic Sea (some more to the SW) |
- Circuit of the Celtic Sea: Hamble - Newlyn - Baltimore - Waterford - Milford - Scilly - Hamble (August - September)
2023
| Part of Skara Brae with the Bay of Skail in the back ground. |
- Hamble - Orkney via Cape Wrath then abandoned at Milford Haven during the return.
- Another attempt at getting to the CI thwarted by bad weather.
2025.





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