The evening of May 26th saw us well prepared to depart Lowestoft for the long leg north to Grimsby (110NM).  If all went according to plan, the lights of the Humber River should be twinkling at us about 18 hours later and so, in the company of Jonathan and Jeremy on their little boat Peverall, READ MORE

Nearly forgetting we were supposed to be sailing round the UK, at 4.30 AM (Yes there are 2 x 4.30’s in a day) we were met with a sunrise, flat seas and a breeze from the north.  The BBC Shipping forecast, that bastion of knowledge and accuracy, confirmed all was good to go.   So, with READ MORE

The last post saw us stuck in Ipswich and with commitments at home to fulfil we closed Le Jouannet down and came home to Woking for 10 days, returning to on May 14th    During this period it hadn’t gone unnoticed that the East Coast was blessed with almost perfect sailing weather and as we alighted READ MORE

Those more observant watchers of ‘The Adventures’ may have thought we’d been stationary for so long we’d had a change of plan and decided to join the electoral role of Ipswich instead of continuing with our circumnavigation.     I am equally aware that if you’d have set off on foot the same day we left Yarmouth READ MORE

Crossing the Thames Estuary was to be our first major navigational test, so it was time to be serious for once.   I do understand that as a yacht we are somewhat insignificant in relation to the quantity of shipping and often unseen by larger vessels.   Add to this the shifting sand banks, enormous wind farms READ MORE

We exited Eastbourne Lock and wiggled our way around the mud, that appears at low water, and headed in the direction of Dover. Met with glorious sunshine and a feint breeze from the South West our next navigation point was Dungeness.  This was spotted just after the conclusion of BBC Radio 2’s Pop Quiz (That’s READ MORE

Due to the tides we spent an extra day in Brighton, spending a great evening with Bob and Sharon and we even did the tourist bit of the Royal Pavillion.  The plan for the next morning was an early off to catch the last of the eastbound tide however when you wake up and cannot READ MORE

Leaving Chichester we turned East into unknown waters which seems a strange thing to say being so close to the Solent but we’d never sailed in this direction before.   We can also safely say ‘We’ as this includes Le Jouannet as there are no historical records of her visiting Littlehampton or Brighton before, so we are READ MORE

Having abandoned plans of France because of the roaring southerly winds in our face and the time spent getting repairs and recovering from a ‘man injury’, no time to mention Nina’s trip to the local NHS Minor Injuries Unit with deep cut finger, a week had passed. During this period, I’d taken the eye off READ MORE

Mileage 0 : Start Point Yarmouth Pier.    9am on the dot the sun shone the wind dropped we slipped lines from Yarmouth refreshed and with a plan.   As we waved off the berthing master, tucked away the fenders and turned LJ on to 090 degrees I couldn’t help but notice that the Raymarine Navigation system, READ MORE