Hello everyone, welcome to our sailing adventure! First, apologies for taking so long to publish this first blog. Getting online and finding the time and energy to write has been hard. (Seasickness is no joke!) We started our journey in Inverness Marina and made our way west along the Caledonian Canal with Donald and Fran.…
Kinlochbervie to Inverness
Tyrian moored at Inverness Marina
Campbeltown to Kinlochbervie
My huge thanks to Graham Mann and his crew who’ve taken Tyrian the 256nm this week from Campbeltown to Kinlochbervie, leaving at midnight on Monday and arriving this afternoon. 39 hour straight sail. Awesome job! Looking forward to joining the crew tomorrow for the final push ‘over the top’, through the Pentland Firth and onward…
Bantry to Campbeltown
We left Bantry in good spirit with all known leaks attended to, a good forecast for sailing up the Irish Sea and the mast shim issue fixed. Our planned destination was Belfast though we remained open to this changing as the weather dictated. By the second day at sea, we opted to go for Campbeltown,…
Falmouth to Bantry
We set sail from Falmouth bound for Bantry with a relatively gentle force 3 wind on the the nose. This rose steadily toward a North Westerly Force 8 gale by the time we reached the entrance to Bantry bay, accompanied by a 2m – 3m swell. Whilst the engine performed well, the sails remained down.…
The Journey Home
Having purchased Tyrian of Truro from her previous owner, Peter Flutter, in December 2021 our first task was to find a way of getting her ‘home’. That is to say, we needed to move her from her existing berth in Falmouth (some 700 miles by car from our home) to Inverness Marina where she would…