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...
Holiday take 2 – Fowey to Plymouth
We had a pretty motor to Plymouth. Once again there was no wind, so we motored through flat calm seas. We were still towing the tender, so I thought it would be a bit of fun to tow Trina...
Holiday take 2 – Falmouth to Fowey
After a lazy morning we hauled up the anchor and set off for Fowey. I can’t recommend this anchorage enough. Smoke drifted across the shoreline from distant camp fires, and the silence was exactly what we needed after Falmouth....