If Vatersay beach had palm trees you might think you were in the Carribean - white beaches, blue sea & dolphins, but like that most famous of paradises, The ...
We sail across from the Inner Hebrides to the Outer Hebrides and fail to pay any attention to all the warning signs that the weather threw our way. ---- ...
We arrive in the Small Isles and have a look around three of them before moving onward. We knew of Muck, Eigg and Rum but Canna and Sanday came as a real ...
It takes us a couple goes to get up the Sound of Mull to Tobermory and it works so much better when we stop fighting the wind. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you ...
We take a major detour to see somewhere that we missed on our last trip to Oban. The weather decided to keep us on our toes as well, but that is half the fun. ...
We explore the Sound of Mull and discover a lovely little marina snugged away up in Salen in Loch Sunart. Karen read an article that cold water swimming was ...
We get ourselves moving from West Loch Tarbert, up through the Sound of Jura and the Sound of Luing to Oban were we pick up crew (our friend Karen). We also ...
We plan our passage across the North Channel to Gigha and Scotland, but as ever, the weather has some other ideas and so we discover West Loch Tarbert ---- ...
We make passage across the Irish Sea from Conwy to Belfast Lough on a very gelatinous sea. Easy going, but motoring is never fun ... ---- Coffee Jar --- If ...
We get a lot of practice ferry-gliding into marinas with strong tides across their entrances and we travel up and down the Menai Strait, visiting Caernarfon ...
We find that anchoring is not as easy as it used to be and that we have been carrying one of Beverley's personal horrors aboard the boat ---- Coffee Jar --- ...
We leave Liverpool and go to Menai in North Wales to get a nice rest after all the yard work and projects. We recalibrate our Raymarine i50 unit and find that ...
We dig into some of the boats darker corners and find a few remaining horror stories as far as electrics go, but the nightmare is the life raft cradle. ---- ...
We continue our work in the yard and make a start of fixing a few deck leaks and well as finishing off the through-hulls ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our ...
After getting into Liverpool, we get hauled out and gave Salty Lass a much needed overhaul after the delays caused by Covid and various lockdowns. ---- Coffee ...
We continue our delivery run to Liverpool only to find that the weather has picked up and is right on our nose, so we divert to Wales instead. ---- Coffee Jar ...
We leave Scotland and sail from Troon to Portpatrick and then the Isle of Man so that we can be in Liverpool for early June. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like ...
We commence our run from Scotland to Liverpool to get work done on the boat, but we end up going the wrong direction. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our ...
We visit Millport, one of our favourite spots in Scotland so we can shelter from a storm. The only problem was that the storm decided to come from the wrong ...
We go from Arran to Portavadie to shoot an imaginary Instagram photo, but wind up instead relaxing in the Kyles of Bute. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our ...
The weather keeps us in Campbeltown on the Mull of Kintyre so we go exploring and discover a hotel with 500 whiskys to chose from. When we do leave we have ...
We finally get a gap in the series of storms to run across the North Channel and shelter in Campbeltown before the next storm hits us. ---- Coffee Jar --- If ...
In spite of extensive planning, we get our passage around Fair Head wrong. ---- Coffee Jar --- If you like our videos, you can always drop a tip in our ...
Our contract at Carrickfegus expires and we have to move on. It looked like we would have a nice gentle sail, but the weather as we entered the North Channel ...