Anyone Going Sailing This Year or Jacking It All In?

[Nick]

Our plans:

April/May cruising the Algarve and the Atlantic Spanish coast on Avy-J

June/July/August cruising NW Scotland, maybe Shetland/Norway on Fairwinds

September - Cruising the Algarve

October - Sail to Madeira

Early Dec - Sail to Gran Canaria

[Gardenshed]

the usual west coast jaunts and perhaps a trip to Iceland with a friend on his boat (& back)
also want to finally get my yachtmaster ticket so doing the theory now and will log the necessary longer passages and night sailing this summer
Round Mull and a few other races sprinkled into to mix

[wully]

Yes.

No.

[Bodach na mara]

Well I'm planning to persuade the mate to stay sober long enough to keep a lookout while our vessel makes its way to the western isles. She's got better eyes than me and sees the odd thing before we bump into it. Mind you some unkind people have been commenting about the length of my remaining teeth, pointing out that I will have passed into my ninth decade of causing trouble and finding hidden rocks and maybe I should be thinking about easing the burden on the rescue services.

[cpedw]

Well I'm planning to persuade the mate to stay sober

How is that done? Can you give any tips?

[aquaplane]

Jacking it all in my arse.

I'm only 63 and the crew is significantly younger (29 she says), so loads of seasons yet.

Thinking of venturing south into the Irish sea and down to Wales or maybe beyond. But taking red diesel may be painful if we touch Southern Ireland so I don't know.

Johnson and Covid have complicated life so a cruise to Skye and beyond to Cape Wrath may be feasable, but getting home to tend to Mum will be harder than from Hollyhead.

[Telo]

No plans at the moment, other than an inclination to head for Stromness for the Orkney Folk Festival, always a great weekend, and then over to Norway, perhaps going further north this time.

On the other hand, at this time if year, reading Rob's and Nick's accounts of sailing in warm weather does make south attractive too.....

Either way, a few jobs waiting to do on the boat.

[Aja]

Just back from a planning weekend.

Plans made to
Launch in April and diddle about the Clyde. Younger daughter has significant birthday in early May which is 3 line whip.
Away for a cruise thereafter but maybe a 2 week trip out to Corfu on the good yacht Elysia.

Back and take grand weans away for a week when school breaks up.

Cruise up west coast but upto Orkney and Shetland is penciled in meeting friends on their way there. How we get there and back and where we leave Aja still to be determined.

August will be on the west coast then a final 2 weeks back out to Corfu late October for a cruise over to Brindisi - Montenegro and back. Skipper days he might have to check depths in Brindisi though (need 3 metres ) for depth.

I feel quite exhausted just writing this down.....

Donald

[marisca]

Launch mid-April on return from grandfather duties in darkest Africa. After that it depends on crew, weather and all other outside influences but may include SIPR, Scottish Series, Round Mull, Golden Wedding celebration (how did that get in there?), Hebcelt, West Highland Week with as much cruising in between as I can get away with. Still have a lot of to-do's on the list though.

[claymore]

Considering sailing back to Fleetwood this year come September.
Need to get some jobs done and the cost of fuel for the journey to Gods country and home again is beginning to look a tad high

[wully]

Considering sailing back to Fleetwood this year come September.
Need to get some jobs done and the cost of fuel for the journey to Gods country and home again is beginning to look a tad high

The walk widd dae ye guid..

[claymore]

Shirley It wid be time tae be headin 'hame by the time we wuzz at Shap....?

[wully]

Widd Be all doon hill frae there.

Unless ye were headin hame frae here.

[claymore]

Well - I can certainly help you clear some space by taking some whusky off yer hands!
Parking the boat at my yacht club will cost me around £300 for the winter and its 10 minutes from home.
She needs to come out next winter because she has been in for 4 years now - probably a low chance of osmosis given her age and layup but I think its still best to let some air around her bottom - if you'll pardon the expression.
I need to rewire the domestic stuff - it needed doing 25 years ago according to the survey so better get it done. My cousin is an electrician and I do his I.T. stuff and accounts from time to time so it would be a labour exchange - long time since I've been near one of those!

I did say I was cured of sailing the Irish Sea but its not so bad - 3 days of grunt to get to Portpatrick, IOM and then Fleetwood - not having a deadline of having to be in work on Monday is a great relief so we could take in a few other waypoints - not Barrow!!! Or Workington.
We are paid up in Ardfern until September so we will be around for the duration and yes - I hope we get to share some time - and drink!!

[wully]

September ye say?

Here was me getting my hopes up as well..