In 2018, we bought Ruby Tuesday in Shotley Marina, near Ipswich in Suffolk, and spent the summer sailing her back along the south coast of Britain, out to the Isles of Scilly, then up along the coast of Wales, across to northern Ireland, then to Ardrossan, in North Ayrshire in Scotland, a distance of some 1200 nautical miles.
The following are blog entries for various stages of the voyage, arranged chronologically from the start.
- The Odyssey begins
- Surveys
- Arthur Ransome country
- Harwich
- On our way at last
- The Smack boys of Ramsgate
- Ramsgate to Dover
- A Roman Painted House, Channel Swimmers and White Cliffs
- A boat from the Bronze Age
- A Busman’s Holiday and a Sandwich Deal in Kent
- Dover to Eastbourne
- Hastings and Rye
- Eastbourne to Brighton
- Brighton rocks
- Brighton to Portsmouth
- Job satisfaction
- Cowes
- Beaulieu River
- Poole
- Lulworth Cove
- We help the army
- Murder most foul
- Portland Bill
- Dartmouth
- Fowey
- The Isles of Scilly
- Isles of Scilly to Padstow
- Restored vision
- Lundy
- Milford Haven
- Fishguard
- Aberystwyth
- Aberdyfi
- Pwllweli
- Porth Dinllaen
- Holyhead
- The Isle of Man
- Douglas
- Peel, Ramsey and Laxey
- Over to Ireland
- Strangford Lough
- Bangor and Belfast
- Ballycastle and the Causeway Coast
- Rathlin Island
- Islay
- Campbeltown
- Gigha
- Arran
Ruby Tuesday 