Sailing course dates
Dates for 2025
Back on the water in March. Dates and destinations coming soon. The plan at present is Brittany and the Spanish Rias! Give us a call for a chat anytime.
You may have read earlier that we were heading to Norway again. in 2024. Well we got as far as Stornoway ( Lewis) and decided the weather gods just didn’t like us! We were a bit sick of cold, strong winds from the north and rain. We ran south.
Gigha in the Sound of Jura. Beautiful. Could be in the tropics!
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Minke whales in Irish sea
Rolling hitch anchor bridle
Old stuff under here.
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 Isle of Man, Menai Strait ( 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 rarely or never seen before!
2013 Spain adventure
Top Cat’s 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 eventually got herself 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!