Portland Bill

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

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Merry Christmas!

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

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Journey Home: Part 1

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

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Salcombe (off season)

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

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Discovering Dartmouth

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

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Sailing Adventures: Part 7

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

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Walking to Weymouth

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

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Sailing Adventures: Part 6

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

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Picturesque Poole

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

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Sailing Adventures: Part 5

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

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