With a week of unexpected leave I went to explore parts of North West Scotland which may have been visited by my Great Uncle during the war.
Tag: Sailing
Revenge of the Ticks and other weekends
Three short cruises to round off the season.
Summer Cruise 2025: Not a Vintage Year
2025 was not destined to be a vintage year. Though the weather was warmer than 2024, the thieves of time were at work.
A Trip to the Chart Agents
Looking back at paper charts I have owned over the last 50 years.
Returning to Scotland 2024
Our 2024 cruise from North Wales to Skye, during a particularly cool wet summer
We Didn’t Mean to Buy a Boat
Buying our new boat and a shakedown to the Isles of Scilly
Reflections on our sails around Britain
Preparing the Boat A cruise around Britain was one of our objectives when we bought White Knight of Purbeck. She is a Contessa 32 originally commissioned in 1979 for the Royal Armoured Corps YC as “White Knight 2”. She was renamed “White Knight of Purbeck”, sold and refitted in the mid-1990s then moved to Scotland…… Continue reading Reflections on our sails around Britain
Leg 5: Scotland
The last leg of our circumnavigation of Britain, returning with White Knight to the west coast of Scotland. Allbe it with a short cut through the Caledonian Canal.
Leg 4b: Scarborough to Eyemouth
With the long leg from Suffolk to Yorkshire behind me it was time to make progress North.
Leg 4a The East Coast: Ramsgate to Scarborough
As the 2022 heatwave reached its peak I made my way up the North Sea from Kent across the Thames Estuary and the Wash to Yorkshire.
Chris Goes Sailing 