Logs

An Impromptu Adventure This story languished in our in-box for 10 months and we can only say we are very sorry. Now, at last you can read this beautifully written account of a winter sail. Thursday's dawn came at a sensible time and on a rising breeze we set off in the direction of Loch Sunart, aiming for Salen as a first port of call. Every man and his dog warning of an impending deep low weather system heading towards the west coast during the weekend. We enjoyed a blaze of a sail across the Sound around the Stirks and into the mouth of Loch Sunart ... read more ...

Before Puffin Beautifully written and illustrated account of a family's sailing experiences on the Norfolk Broads and in the Solent. Written by Jocelyn M Greenway, Illustrated by her husband Robert and edited by their daughter Cathy, this free to download digital book is guaranteed to whet your appetite for 'Puffin's Log' by the same author chronicalling the family's later adventures in their 22-ft Hillyard yacht, Puffin.

Dumb & Dumber go foreign, or just how bad can a Volvo Agent be? - Somewhere in the Amazonian basin a parrot farted and a chain of events was launched that messed up my weekend. Read more ...

TWO WEEKS IN GREECE ABOARD THE YACHT 'CECILY' JUNE 2008 - This was to be my first stern to mooring in Cecily Click for full size picture (in fact my first mooring in her full stop). This was quite daunting manoeuvring a friends 52ft pride and joy into a small space. Cecily is also a long keel and certainly doesn't go astern very well (a definite understatement!) It went ok 'ish but certainly room for improvement. Read more ...

Hartlepool to Amble 2008 - We then scoured the immediate area looking for locals similar in looks to Bill (He was stationed with the RAF here for quite a while, and by all accounts had a few romantic entanglements). However, they all seem pretty normal looking, so we'll probably look in the town later on for some little Billy's. Read more ...

Hartlepool to Gibraltar 2007 in a Bavaria 37 - There had been a safety notice over the radio warning that there were six very large cargo hold lids floating in our area coloured green. Fat chance of spotting them in the dark, just hope we don’t happen to find them with our bow! Read more ...

THE ORKNEY ISLANDS ADVENTURE - The wind increased as the clouds came over us so I put a reef in the main and dropped the mizzen sail; suggesting that Bernie put a reef in AG as well, as it looked like we were in for a good blow. How right I was! ... The storm hit at about 21.00hrs from the north, anyone that knows Eyemouth wouldn't have recognised it Read more ...

A Simple Delivery Cruise Rocyn gets his new yacht Gwylan from Portishead to her new berth in Terneruzen and has a little adventure along the way. As always he copes when ′stuff′ happens but he pulls no punches if the stops along the way are not up to scratch and quite right too! ...

Ostend Weekend The intrepid Team Nimrod make a Mad March Dash to Ostend for the Easter weekend. You know, you can get Belgium chocolate in the supermarkets over here lads!

UK Circumnavigation Read the story as it unfolds. Follow Rocyn Williams' UK circumnavigation in Achilles 24 'Mouette Solitaire'

Harwich to Den Helder Engaging account of a North Sea crossing in a Jeaneau Sun Odyssey 32.

Sailing stories with pictures by James Calore Well written acounts of various "Most Excellent" adventures. Sailtales.co.uk accept no responsibility for the content of other web sites

Endeavour Voyage Dick Mc Mahon "I don't think you'd DIE if you fell from the ""futtock"" because the lower part of the shroud would keep you from hitting the deck 75-feet below. What would probably happen is that you'd roll down the lower shroud and FALL INTO THE OCEAN ... then you'd die." Sailtales.co.uk accept no responsibility for the content of other web sites

The logs of a Southerly 115, Series III www.tidewinder.org Sailtales.co.uk accept no responsibility for the content of other web sites

How to cross the channel the hard way!. Weired lights under the sea and unidentified marks moving accross your path! The Channel can be a strange place after dark.

A Date To Remember. Can you make a cup of tea for the whole crew in a near gale? Try doing it on your first ever sailing trip!

There's nothing quite like it. The story of a competent crew course. October 2001.

Magicienne Geoff and Pauline Westgarth tell it like it is. Very entertaining, well written and informative accounts of cruising from scratch. http://hometown.aol.co.uk/geoffwestgarth/myhomepage/travelwriting.html Sailtales.co.uk accept no responsibility for the content of other web sites