Sailing course dates

Posted on January 30th, by admin in Course dates. No Comments

Dates for 2020

19th – 24th April

Plymouth start and finish.

3rd – 8th May

Plymouth start and finish

17th – 24th May.

7 days Plymouth – Penzance via Scilly if weather allows.

24th – 29th May.

Penzance – Scilly! – Penzance.

More to come!

we are heading south for Brittany, Spain and Portugal. ASK!

Fingals cave

Yes. that too. Gota be done

Close quarters sailing skills a big part of what we do

Warping the Cat alongside

Harve Goslin on Sark in Channel Islands

now you don’t see those every day

“You’re smiling like the Dolphin” Channel Islands

TopCat Scotland and back 2015

Great sailing, great training ! Heres a few pictures from a trip taking us from Plymouth along both south and north coasts of Cornwall, over

to Lundy thence to south Wales. Buryport, over to southern Ireland
( Arklow, Wicklow, Houth) Northern Ireland too. Annalong, Strangford lough. Over to Portpatrick on the Mull of Galoway. Into the firth of Clyde via AilsaCraig, Campbelltown on the Mull of kintyre, loch Ranza on Arran, Kyles of Bute then a crew change in largs.

That was just to get north. Heading south again took in Ilse of man, Menai straight ( north Wales) and back via the Scilly’s. What a summer!

You get a little more with Top Cat. No we don’t swan around the Solent. These are true Cruising courses. Passage planning big time. Real passage making. every harbour is one we have never seen!

: proa on Scilly

: trevose LB station

: Therasa and Round island on Scilly

: the only way to travel

: Strangford tidal turbine

: North coast crew

: Seven stones LV

: Porth Clais quay, hmm?

: Mixing it with the fishermen Newquay

: Trevose hd

: Jim on lundy.

: Jack Sound in force six. gotta get the tide right!

: slowly Alan or Sharron;ll have a wet bum

: Heath and Puke. How did you keep him still that long?

: Firewaorks for us in Penzance

: No idea what there watching?!

: Doc martins house in Port Issac

: we made it ! but how do we get outa here?

: spinnaker trimmer / snoozer

: porth clais aground

: Clovelly for a pint

: Oops! Clew ring snapped

: beam anchor Porth Clais

: Annalong Ireland

2013 Spain adventure

Top Cats summer cruise got off to a fine start with an easy sail across the channel to L’Aberildut. I remember a right old fight getting the anchor back! tried every trick in the book and still getting nowhere. Eventually tried putting a small loop of chain around the main cable and dropping it down a tight main anchor chain. Drop the main chain and pull on the small loop. It worked! we couldn’t believe it. All stop here though as we found the starboard engine had cracked a piston? So a U turn and back over the channel via Ile de batz ( Beautiful drying anchorage in perfect shelter) Limped home, Well I call it limping, but we had sails and one engine just like half a boat!. Engine re bored etc. Mago eventualy got here self down to Northern Spain. A hard place to cruise with big swells, shallow drying entrances and harbours few and far between. Beautiful but not easy!