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4 Jun 2012
Channel Islands - Guernsey to Sark

A cracking sail across from St Peter Port on Guernsey to the Havre Gosselin anchorage on Sark to await the favourable tides for a sail to Alderney. Havre Gosselin is part of the large La Grand Greve bay and is a picture…

2 Jun 2012
Channel Islands - Brixham to Guernsey

A south about sail round Guernsey to St Peter Port. The wind couldnt have been better such that we got to St Peter Port Victoria Marina beforer the sill closed meaning that dinner at La Perla was on. Unfortuantely only…

28 May 2015
CI & France 2015 - St Malo to Guernsey

A sail back from St Malo to Guernsey. Quite a hard sail as there were some short steepish waves that slowed the boat speed considerably for quite a time. The wind was also from the north meaning that we were "pinching" f…

29 May 2015
CI & France 2015 - Stuck in harbour

Some big gusts of wind were predicted for this Friday so we sat the day out in St Peter Port marina. A wise choice as the few boats that did go out came back in fairly quickly. Some chandlery browsing and lunch at Guerns…

22 May 2015
CI & France 2015 - Brixham to Guernsey

A sail across from Brixham Marina to St Peter Port in Guernsey. Quite foggy when leaving Brixham, not so foggy crossing the shipping lanes (phew) and very foggy making landfall on the Guernsey side (having more than one…

4 Jun 2017
St Peter Port to SYC

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…

3 Jun 2017
Ile de Brehat to St Peter Port

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…

30 May 2017
St Peter Port to St Helier

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

27 May 2017
Brixham to St Peter Port

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…

27 May 2018
St Peter Port to St Helier

A really good sail from St Peter Port on Guernsey across to St Helier on Jersey. Along the south coast of Jersey where the usual past times of spotting the German 2nd World War defences and avoiding the Condor fast ferri…

25 May 2018
Brixham to St Peter Port

From Brixham across to St Peter Port on Guernsey. Overall a good crossing with reasonable visibility until just after the shipping lanes. Then the fog came in with a vengeance! Having the luxury of both AIS and radar on…

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