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Not a lot of wind on the trip from Brixham to St Peter Port, Guernsey. Mostly just headsail up. An easy crossing of the TSS. A rather large ship was contacted on Ch13 and was happy for us to continue in our role as the "…

A leisurely sail down from SYC to the Events Pontoon at Brixham ahead of a crossing to Guernsey. It was Pirate time in Brixham that weekend and there were a few early idiots whose late night antics made getting up for a…

After a day's delay to let strong winds go through, we exited Victoria Marina over the cill at about 04:10. The Little Russel was very calm with only a few pot buoys to contend with. After an all too brief 20 minutes of…

Started the day with a wander round Sark and a lovely soup lunch at Stocks hotel. A short but fast sail from Havre Gosselin, Sark to St Peter Port in Guernsey. There were some confused seas to the east of the Lower Head…

We decided on Granville as the next port of call to get a better angle on the wind for the return trip to Guernsey. The first attempt at leaving St Cast was short lived due to an engine overheating problem on one of the…

A fairly strong following wind for the sail across from St Peter Port on Guernsey to St Cast in Brittany. We sailed pretty much the whole trip under just full headsail but still maintained a good average speed. First tim…

One of the best sails of the trip. From Granville in Normandy, between the Iles Chausey, the Minquiers and the south coast of Jersey and on to the anchorage at Havre Gosselin on the west side of Sark. We'd assumed a slow…

Dodged the rain to walk from Treen via Porthcurno and Porthgwarra to Lands End. Exhausting walking into the 40 to 50mph westerlies (yellow wind warning). Because we didn't fancy the coast path so close to the cliff edge…

Having hidden in the van all day from the rain, wind and mizzle, the need to avoid going stir crazy lead to a short walk to Constantine Bay. Nice coffee and cake though.

A short walk from Trethias Farm Campsite to Treyarnon Bay.

From Beare's Den campsite down to the coast path and then along to Marazion. A pint in Marazion and then we opted for the bus back to Rosudgeon.

From Tregunwith Farm via Mylor Bridge and Mylor round to Flushing Beach. Managed to dodge the rain showers until just before Restronguet Sailing Club on the way back.

Down from Tregunwith Farm to the Pandora Inn for an anniversary pint (or two). Not sure how many times we've ended up at the Pandora on out anniversary!

Bit of an odd one. After walking from St Mawes to St Just along the west side of the Roseland Peninsula, the idea was to catch a bus across the peninsula to Porthscatho and then walk the coast path back to Merrose camp s…

Caught the bus from Merrose Farm Campsite down to St Mawes. Scooby Hound a bit unsure about the bus to start with. As forecast, the weather gradually got less rainy the closer we got to St Just on our walk. Rather good l…

From the Carlyon Bay Camping Park along the coast path to Charlestown. I think Charlestown was looking a little sad. There was some work started on changes to the harbour but is was closed (part from a large Border Force…

The girls go to Stonehenge to see in the Summer Solstice!

A long downwind sail from the overnight anchorage at Dixcart Bay, Sark to Treguier in Brittany, France. The wind was just about dead aft so lots of goose winging (with preventer set) and running. We were going to go sout…

A very fast sail back from St Peter Port, Guernsey to SYC on the Exe. For most of the way the wind was quite strong - maybe a force 5 - but was on the port rear quarter. This meant that most of the sail was done with jus…

After getting up an hour too early (confusing French and English first light times!!!), we sailed from Ile de Brehat for St Peter Port on Guernsey. The sail around the north east corner of the Ile de Brehat was notable f…

Up from St Quay-Portreaux to Ile de Brehat. The Ile de Brehat is a small island on a rocky shore. Somewhat similar to Sark (no cars and a very small population like Sark but no cliffs).

After a light wind start, a lovely sail down from St Helier, Jersey to St Quay Portrieux on the Brittany coast. Sailed under cruising chute for most of the way. St Quay has the huge advantage of being an "all tide" port…

A lovely sail from St Peter Port on Guernsey across to St Helier on Jersey. Ideal winds and weather.

After a delay of 12 hours waiting for the weather to improve a little, we set off at lunchtime for the channel crossing to St Peter Port. The wind was a fair bit stronger than forecast making the first part of the journe…

Down from SYC on the Exe to Brixham ahead of the channel crossing to St Peter Port on Guernsey.

Back from St Peter Port to Starcross Yacht Club on the Exe. Up the Little Russell at about 08:00 with just a little "wind against tide bounciness" at the top end. Then across the shipping lanes with very good visibility.…

Round from La Greve de la Ville anchorage on the east side of Sark to the Saigne Bay anchorage on the west side. The Saigne Bay anchorage has some rather dramatic rock stacks (think James Bond / The Man With The Golden…

From St Helier on Jersey up to Sark. Along the south coast of Jersey where some wind against tide made the sailing a little bouncy but gave us 8.8 knots over the ground as we went round La Corbiere (as a very blurry pho…

Out from the Iles Chausey via the northern passage. Look carefully at the chart and you'll see that the passage dries to a height of up to 4.5 metres! However, with a tidal range of 10 metres and the excellent French nav…

From Granville across to the Iles Chausey. The Iles Chausey are basically a "bunch of rocks" off the French coast. Apparently there are 365 islands at low tide. With a the ten metre tidal range when we were there, there…