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We Didn’t Mean to Buy a Boat

November 15, 2023January 19, 2026 Posted in Uncategorized, Victoria 30 Boston BelleLeave a comment

Buying our new boat and a shakedown to the Isles of Scilly

Menai StraitsRYASailing

Welcome to Chris Goes Sailing

March 11, 2019December 27, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedLeave a comment

I have been messing about in boats of one sort or another since early childhood. The boats have ranged from kayaks and small dinghies, through more esoteric craft like Indian Ocean outriggers and a long tail “Cordless Canoe”, to various owned and chartered sailing cruisers and a couple of Sail Training vessels. The voyages have…… Continue reading Welcome to Chris Goes Sailing

  • We Didn’t Mean to Buy a Boat
  • Returning to Scotland 2024
  • A Trip to the Chart Agents

Victoria 30 Boston Belle

  • We Didn’t Mean to Buy a Boat
  • Returning to Scotland 2024
  • A Trip to the Chart Agents

Sailing Around Britain

  • The 100 day plan
  • Preparing for Safety
  • Sorting Out the Comms
  • And then the plans changed
  • Leg 1 Caernarfon to Milford Haven and the Saga of Diesel
  • Leg 2 Milford Haven to Plymouth
  • Elin & Lou’s Round Britain & Ireland Race
  • Tales from the support crew.
  • Leg 3:Aftermath of the race and getting to Ramsgate
  • Leg 4a The East Coast: Ramsgate to Scarborough
  • Leg 4b: Scarborough to Eyemouth
  • Leg 5: Scotland
  • Reflections on our sails around Britain

Contessa 32 White Knight

  • In Search of a New Boat.
  • Shaking Down the New Boat
  • Its the Crinan Canal for me
  • Winter Refit and a Looming Pandemic
  • Aiming for Wales, a passage through Covid.
  • “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished”
  • Preparing to “Go Foreign” Part 1: Sorting out the Paperwork
  • Notes on Upgrading White Knight’s Navigation Systems
  • 2021 The Season of Chaos

Shrimper 19 Daisy

  • Reflections on the Shrimper Years
  • Daisy’s First Time Round Anglesey
  • Daisy’s Cruise to the 2014 Commonwealth Games
  • Sailing with a Seagull

Other Boats

  • Kleppie & the Long Tail
  • Raid Lugger
  • Beyond the Hebrides Part 1: St Kilda
  • Beyond the Hebrides Part 2: Wind-bound on Uist and return to Skye
  • Of Saints and Spirits: A cruise around the Inner Hebrides

Miscellaneous Scribbles

  • Reflections of a Topper Roady
  • “Yachtmaster”
  • Sailing Knife
  • Probably the Smallest Sailing Club in the World.
  • A Trip to the Chart Agents

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