It took just 27 hours sailing to travel the final 170nm from Kinlochbervie to Inverness Marina.
Having started the journey from Falmouth in late January and suffered multiple technical and weather-related detays, I was truly delighted to finally arrive in Inverness Marina.
After a final lunch together on the boat Graham Mann and his most excellent crew were off to catch buses and trains to take them home and I was left to survey the full magnitude of Tyrian in her current condition: a lifetime of hoarded equipment aboard; an ever growing to do list of maintenance and upgrade tasks; a mass of steel, wires, ropes, rails and sails.
The plan had originally been to haul her, check her over, replace anodes and possibly touch up the antifoul. We could probably get away with the ‘quick fix’ too – doing the minimum required to be out sailing again.
But Zee and I talked at length and came to the conclusion that if we put in the hard work now, there’d be less to do whilst we were away, less risk of things failing and letting us down. Thus, Tyrian of Truro will spend 2022 on the hard. To cleaned up, maintained and improved, ready for our trip next year…