I sailed from Peterhead into the darkness of the North Sea night, already so much darker than the nights in Shetland, knowing that perhaps the most testing part of the whole cruise was about to begin. The southern North Sea is littered with wind farms, oil platforms, pipelines, and a density of traffic which should … Read more
Trilleen and I sailed from Wick for Peterhead, crossing the Moray Firth and negotiating the first of the many many wind farms on the east coast. I sailed late in the evening a long afternoon snooze and sailing into the night trying to catch the front of a tiny kink in the air stream which … Read more
Trilleen spent what felt like a long time alongside in Lerwick, due to severe weather which detained even yachts three times Trilleen’s length, and also to allow my lovely mum to visit. I was also able to repair the navigation lights which had been ‘eaten’ by the pier at Baltasound and attend to a few … Read more