No wind in the forecast, and no wind arrived. It was a beautiful day to be on the boat and warm enough to break out the shorts and also the drone. In the afternoon Joe and Stew walked the 3miles into Skegness – meaning beard shapped headland in Norse. It Read more…
Gale warnings on the shipping forecast and strong winds in the harbour wouldn’t have been our first choice of weather to begin our journey, but we were all itching to get started. So on the tide at 08:30 we left Grimbsy for Cleethorpse, anchoring in the lee of Haile Sand Read more…
Having spent the last 3 days on the boat getting everything to work and getting accustomed to all the boat systems we needed a day out. We headed to Cleethorpes, 10 miles down the road, which like Greenwich is also on the Prime Meridian, at Read more…
Probably the most important and largest expense of the expedition and the one that has taken many hours of research to hopefully get right was the Support Vessel. We had a number of requirements: Seaworthiness. Sounds obvious but 90% of boats we saw for sale wouldn’t have been able Read more…
We took the Peter Lynn Foil kites out for the first time today. Normally I wouldn’t be able to get a kite in the sky with the trees barely moving, but a new toy has to be tried! They’re such hi-aspect, with the kite at 12 o’clock, it feels as Read more…