Nigel Swanston This log won the Walker Cup 2003. Menorca to Croatia, via Sardinia, Sicily, the Aeolian Islands and Southern Italy. Mahon (Menorca) to Portoscuso (Sardinia) 200 nms. July 15. On board are Sandy Waring and Tim Cox Leave Mahon late afternoon, NE 3 forecast, but by dusk are punching […]
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Julie Elliott I’d spent the past few weeks, and a small fortune on charts, preparing for our 3 week summer holiday on board Slipstream, our Beneteau First 31.7. We were aiming for the Orkneys and set off early on midsummer’s day in perfect westerly conditions. As we sailed out through […]
Linda Lane Thornton Andy and I decided on the Orkney Islands as our holiday destination for 2003 some time around Easter, and had spent several evenings discussing passage plans. During the summer we noticed that the wind direction seemed to change every 3-4 days. Consequently, we had two plans. Plan […]
Bruce Grant Josephine of Hoo is a stor Tumlaren designed to the 30 sq m Scandinavian handicap by Knud Reimers in the late 1930s. Tumlaren is Swedish for porpoise; stor is big to distinguish her from the designer’s smaller 20 sq m Tumlaren. She is a distinctive mahogany double ender 32′ […]
Bruce Grant The Boat: Varis is a Rival 32. Her home mooring is at Ardoran Marine, in Loch Feochan, a mainland loch, lying to the south of Kerrera Sound near Oban, Argyllshire. The Crew: Skipper, Ed Chester; Crew, Bruce Grant both of Royal Northumberland YC. Saturday The cruise started on Saturday 24 […]
Nigel Swanston This log won the Walker Cup for the best cruising log in 2002. Pasu is a Jeanneau Sun Oddessey 31 owned by the Swanston family. She was bought about 5 years ago in Devon, and has been sailed extensively on the Orwell and Hamble. We started at Hamble […]
Julie Elliott In 1993 when we got our first boat ExtroBitionist we decided to spend our summer holiday cruising the Northumberland coast. First stop was Amble where we promptly became storm bound for 3 days. For something to do we took the bus to Alnmouth and called at the Schooner […]
Steve Green Six thirty am and the first tropical downpour of the day wakes me up. I am conscious of an unfilled promise to our rear commodore, Jim Swanston, to write an article for the newsletter and now, in the cool part of the day, seems like a good time […]
Largs & the Clyde 22/29th April 2000 30 aspiring students and 6 brave instructors converged on Largs Marina one fine Saturday in April. Each of the six chartered yachts became melting pots of human talents and characters as the crews rapidly got to know each other in the cockpits and […]
Ann Brindle Day 1: Geoff and I joined RAKI III, a Westerly Fulmar at Largs Yacht Haven after a quick sandwich lunch with Joyce. We enjoyed the sunshine while packing our gear into the boat, and met the rest of the crew. John and Stuart seemed friendly and helpful, and our […]