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Join us as we embark on our final stretch of sailing for the cruising season. We navigate some of the most notorious treacherous waters between Scotland and England where timing is imperative through channels with extreme currents. We anchorage hop from Oban, Scotland to England and make course chan...
We're providing an update on our full time cruising plans, explaining why we're not sailing and what our future holds! We'll also be showing you one of the most notable ports worldwide, Belfast, Northern Ireland, home to the world's largest shipyard where the RMS Titanic was buil...
We're taking a break from boat work and we're taking a drive around Northern Ireland. We take you along our drive along the Causeway Coastal Route to admire the gorgeous limestone cliffs that carve the north Irish coast. We visit a popular seaside resort town and enjoy a walk and drive o...
[NOTE: This episode was filmed in early September and not November as shown in the video. That was an editing error and we apologise for that]
The weather fights back with a vengeance!
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The passage was great. The ending was a fiasco
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We have begun a liveaboard adventure on our Bavaria 36, Salty Lass. It is our ongoing mission to explore s...
We depart the Secret Anchorage for Scotland and run the gauntlet of the North Channel to arrive at the island of Gigha
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We sit out weather in Larne whilst ignoring the anchor drag alarm.
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We have begun a liveaboard adventure on our Bavaria 36, Salty Lass. It is our ongoing missi...
We show you how to spring your boat off a pontoon. It is a very useful technique to get out past other boats that have moored too close or if the wind is blowing you ON to the pontoon.
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01:41 How this is going to work
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People keep asking us why we stay in the north for winter instead of heading south to sunnier climes.
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We track down an intermittent electrical fault, finally get our inverter installed after two years and fail to catch a camera thief
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Weather stops us from finishing the Volvo Penta panel repair, so instead we reflect on whether or not we are crazy to be living aboard a boat in the middle of winter storms
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In 2021 we sailed in all four countries of the UK and the Isle of Man and sampled all the types of weather for which the UK is justifiably famous.
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We experience ocean swells as we cross from Scotland to Northern Ireland, but after going through the rips and overfalls at Fairhead, we encounter one of the best rainbows we have ever seen
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We make passage across the Irish Sea from Conwy to Belfast Lough on a very gelatinous sea. Easy going, but motoring is never fun ...
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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.
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In spite of extensive planning, we get our passage around Fair Head wrong.
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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 had other ideas....
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We look at the areas of the North Channel and the southern Hebrides where we have experienced rips, tides, overfalls and other less pleasant sea states and rank them from best to worst.
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We finally get back to work (sailing) and leave Liverpool for new adventures starting with a crossing to Northern Ireland to attend a maritime festival
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We sail from Carlingford to Ardglass which means we have to cross Greenore Point - an area notorious for tidal streams, breakers and rough seas. Since the boat next to us in the marina got badly damaged transiting the Point, we are a bit nervous before setting off...
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