Risking rail strikes we took a 3 day train trip to Falmouth for the OCC’s West Country Meet last weekend. Dinner was at the Royal Cornwall YC, assommodation was provided by Reg and Nicky on Blie Velvet of Sark - a gorgeous Rival 42 - and a Sunday raft up. Thirty members joined the raft up and the rain sodden gazebo was quickly forsaken for the palatial accommodation on board Paul and Mary’s Leopard 50.
Sally and Simon left Scotland in 2015 on board Shimshal to begin a slow circumnavigation taking in various high latitude destinations. After 3 seasons in Greenland we sailed south to Lewisporte in northern Newfoundland. In 2019 we cruised the Canadian Maritimes. In 2022 & 23 we cruised via New England, Chesapeake, Florida, Cuba, Cayman, Providencia to Bocas del Toro. In late 2023 we transited the Panama Canal and in 2024 we sailed to French Polynesia via Galapagos.