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thanks Nick
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sam

Hi Nick, Would you be happy if I posted this onto the forum? Regards Sam I am the author of UK and Ireland Circumnavigator's Guide and I have just added a couple more dates to the winter talks I am doing. I look at planning aspects of a Round Britain Cruise such as: when to leave, which route, which...

This time last year we were in sunny New Zealand and looking forward to a days sailing to Great Calvi Island. We were in a shop chatting to a local and saying that we were looking forward to our days sailing. She looked absolutely horrified and as did her large bear like husband. We were about to do...

I would definitely recommend that you take Hamish Haswell Smith's book ( Scottish Islands) that Nick recommended as well as the CCC books.

depends if you like the person
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Sam

.....Don't tell me you are feasting on Westray shortbread and orkney fudge.....have you tried the Grimbister Cheese yet? Though F9 in a caravan. Not much fun. One of our most memorable day ashore on our trip was at Grobust Beach blue sky, turquoise sea with waves crashing on the white beach but the ...

It looks idyllic and reminds me how much we enjoyed the few weeks cruising up the west coast of scotland. So many incredible anchorages and reminds why the solent seems so boring! We are seriously thinking about moving our boat up to Oban in the next few years.

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Sam

Glad to see I am not going to be keel hauled - very cold this time of year. But could never be as cold as the water of Orkney...we had a rope round the prop....
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Sam

We have a top loading fridge. Everything used to end up at the bottom, so the beer needed to be fished out from the swished tomatoes - not nice. Then I came across hamster Baskets - these are wire baskets that stack on each other. They are coated with plastic and are made to your measurements. I had...

We have a duogen d400. They are expensive I think all in with regulator, it was £1000, but very good. Much quieter than the AirX marine we had before, which always sounded like we had an helicopter landing. the d400 starts generating at about 6 knots of wind and at 15 knots we get about 3.5 amps....

If you are slurry blasting you won't need to key in with sandpaper the slurry blasting will do that. Do check with your yard first that they will allow slurry blasting mine didn't and I ended up at the last minute having to use chemical rather than slurry blasting. They said it would be easy ...ha h...

Firstly apologies for the blatant advertising ...sorry. I promise I will contribute to the site. Dave S....so close in Orkney - we must have passed each other, you arrived in Stromness the day we left. They are fantastic the Orkneys - aren't they. Worth a visit by land or sea ( and I promise I don't...

If you are planning a UK and Ireland Circumnavigation or round Britain, then you might find "UK and Ireland Circumnavigator's Guide" useful for your planning. You can find out more about the book at www.ituna.info or on Amazon. If you are planning a trip round britain then you are in for a...