The leaving party Friday night I threw everything onto the boat that was scattered around the pontoon, the leaky outboard motor was strapped to the pushpit, bits of old plywood thrown onto the cabin roof, ready to move out...
99 days to go!
Ahh crap! So I started writing this post a day after the ARC 2017 departed from the Canaries to St Lucia back in November last year. That was over 5 months ago. Consequently, this is going to be a...
Ramsgate back to London
Determined to get the boat back to London, I arrived early Thursday morning intent on doing a singlehanded night sail that evening. I found Excalibur calmly bopping away in Ramsgate marina with very little signs of seagull shit to...
Dover back to London
That was the plan….but it didn’t happen. I took a super early train down to Dover and worked (day job) from the boat. Ironically I’m developing an ocean themed website at the moment for a client, which is quite...
Facebook page and some new improvements
The time has come for Today I bought a boat to have it’s own Facebook page. https://www.facebook.com/todayiboughtaboat This way I’m able to do a few funky things, like use Facebook’s instant articles. So if you’re viewing this on your...
Brighton to Dover
Another weekend, another night sail. I wanted to take every opportunity to get Excalibur further along the coast as soon as possible before any October storms rolled in. So we had an ambitious plan of doing a 14 hour...
Gosport – Brighton
Now it feels like I’m on my way home writing this post. Not much of a post this one I’m afraid to say. Sunday morning we got up at 4:45am to head to Brighton. We really wanted to do...
Salcombe – Poole – Lymington – Gosport
The logistics of getting down to Salcombe where we’d left the boat was a bit of a faff. We don’t have a working outboard at the moment and the water taxi’s don’t run late in Salcombe, so as we...
That’s it! We’ve signed up!
On Sunday after a few drinks at home, sat on the couch, slightly inebriated on homemade cocktails we signed up to the ARC 2018. Seemed like a good idea at the time! Signing up to the ARC is like adding...
Plymouth to Salcombe
There’s a few things that I wanted to get sorted before we venture much further. I was concerned about the engine vibration at low revs, and the rudder pintle. We had one guy over to give Excalibur a gas...