goodall_m1
About Me
I’ve been sailing on and off since 1972 but really only got into it when I spent 3 years in Dubai (1980-1983) with a very slow Laser, slow when I was driving it anyway.
Migrated to cruisers in 1991 (water in UK is too cold for me especially in a dinghy), but have done most of my sailing in the Mediteranean anyway.
Still don’t have my own boat, it is cheaper to hire someone elses for the amount of time off I have.
Personal Website: http://community.webshots.com/user/goodall_m1
Sailing Experience
I’m only a coastal sailor, no ocean experience.
239 days at sea, and 4800 miles logged on yachts so far, and hold the MCA/RYA Coastal Skipper certificate
Just finished my longest trip yet 850 miles from Inverness to Gosport, via the Caledonian Canal.
Longest passage is 235 miles, Milford Haven to Brixham
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goodall_m1 wrote a new blog post. November 25, 2008
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Sardinia Channel, November 2008
Castelsardo - Bonifacio - Santa Teresa - Stintino - Alghero
November 30, 2008: A trip arranged by email to join a skipper with whom we have only conversed via email. What awaits us in Alghero as our cheap Ryanair flight decends towards Sardinia? One thing we do know after our last exchange of email is that the yacht didn’t make it back to Alghero after its last trip and is in a Castelsardo marina on the north coast so its going to be a taxi trip across the isl... » read more
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Corfu and Paxos, May 2008
Corfu - Saiyiada - Ag Stephanos - Kassiopi - Petreti - Gaios - Mongonissi - Lakka - Mourtos - Plateria
November 06, 2008: Sailing Holidays (www.sailingholidays.com) have 120 yachts operating from three bases in Western Greece. Well they do during the summer season in the winter they keep them all ashore at Gouvia Marina in Corfu, and Gouvia is not one of those operating bases,Therefore at the start of the season they have to get all those yachts out on trips that will eventually end at their correct ope... » read more
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Grenadines and Carriacou Oct 2006
St Vincent - Bequia - Mustique - Tobago Cays - Mayreau - Union - Carriacou - Union - Tetite St Vincent - Canuan - Bequia - St Vincent
November 06, 2008: Well it all started with a "special offer" eMail from Sunsail, two week flotilla out of St Vincent, and the discovery that they were offering a "share-a-yacht" option, four up on a Sun Odessey 43DS.Looked like a good trip, into an area I had never sailed before, so I suggested to my sister that she might like to join me..When is it? October. When is the hurricane season? Jun... » read more
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Inverness to Gosport, August 2008
Inverness - Caledonian Canal - Fort William - Gigha - Bangor(NI) - Douglas(IOM) - Holyhead - Milford Haven - Brixham - Lymington - Gosport
October 21, 2008: Gary and I had signed on for a mile-builder and a half.John Wetton who runs a sailing school and charter business (http://www.wetstuff.org.uk/) out of Gosport had gone walkabout with Prime Evil, his Sigma 400 and had been out cruising for 6 weeks in three sections, up to Oban, around the Western Isles, up to Orkney and down to InvernessWe were joining him for the final leg, ... » read more
18 posts (4202 words) 126 photos 0 comments
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saler October 09, 2008 at 05:15 AM
We booked because of the 10 for 7 deal. Something they do every June through Oct I believe.