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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

Sailing blog from United Kingdom by goodall_m1

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

Cork Week 06

Tarbert Loch Fyne (Scotland) - Bangor (NI) - Dun Laoghire (Eire) - Kilmore Quay (Eire) - Crosshaven (Eire) for racing at Cork Week 06 then back home via Dunmore East (Eire) - Du...

Sailing blog from Ireland by nmcleod

Crossing over to Tarbert

After a number of years of being on the east coast I'm now taking my little boat from Cramond in Edinburgh through the Forth and Clyde canal to Bowling and then onwards to Tarbert.

Sailing blog from United Kingdom by b2k

September 29, 2008: After what seems like ages we set out today to take the Timahoy up to the first lock of the Forth and Clyde canal. Its called Carron lock and is just beyond Grangemouth and up the river Carron for two miles.With my new engine and the helpStephen my son and Ron from the ‘Impulse’ at Cramond I got on to the Timahoy. The new engine looked like not starting and we huffed and puffed... » read more