Portland Bill

Back to our adventures in October… We had anchored in Portland Harbour for two nights with a…


Merry Christmas!

Here’s to our first real time post…. Christmas 2020 is for us, like most people in the…


Journey Home: Part 1

The time had come to start the journey home to Fox’s Marina in Ipswich. The weather was…


Salcombe (off season)

After an eventful sail from Dartmouth to Salcombe (see Sailing Adventures: Part 7), we were very…


Discovering Dartmouth

Arriving in Dartmouth, the weather was forecast to be very windy, far too windy for us to want to…


Sailing Adventures: Part 7

We were now three weeks into our trip and were starting to consider how far west to go before…


Walking to Weymouth

While sailing along the south coast, there have been few safe overnight anchorages, so most nights…


Sailing Adventures: Part 6

Continuing west, we left Poole and headed for Portland. The day started calmly with a north…


Picturesque Poole

Poole is a coastal town in Dorset. It is a popular tourist resort, attracting visitors with its…


Sailing Adventures: Part 5

The time had come to leave the Solent and to continue our journey west. The next leg was to Poole…