Category: Project updates

Yesterday I came into Hamble Point Marina exactly 11 weeks after setting off to attempt to become the youngest person to sail solo round Britain, at 15. Here is my…

As you can see below, I had a very special visit from Ellen MacArthur today. Ellen has been my idol not just for sailing but for how I want to…

We left Portland Marina at 2am, another early start – but I’m getting used to this now! I wanted to ensure we got through the Hurst Narrows safely with the…

Another early start! We left Dartmouth at 5am today, headed for Portland. The seas approaching Portland Bill were quite confused, we had a fairly constant F5 from the west all…

After leaving Plymouth yesterday, here we are in Dartmouth. Not where we had intended to be, but due to the pretty tough F6+ conditions around Start Point, on the nose,…

You might have seen in some of my previous posts I have mentioned the array of marine wildlife that I have seen, in particular Dolphins which have followed the boat…

Yesterday I came into Queen Anne’s Battery after leaving Falmouth Marina early that morning for what turned out to be a pretty fast trip with a following breeze and swell….

Land’s End This evening I came into Newlyn Harbour 13.5 hours after leaving Padstow. It turned out to be a pretty difficult passage because we had a pretty lousy sea…

Yesterday afternoon I came into @Padstow Harbour 3 days after leaving Pwllheli, North Wales. It was the most intense few days of my life. At sunrise on Monday morning I…

Navigation: The process or activity of accurately ascertaining one’s position and planning, and following a route. Navigation has been a huge part of my trip round Britain. Before every passage…