Following my thoroughly enjoyable sojourn in America with the family, it was time to return, by train to Plymouth, this time with a purely ‘social’ crew comprising of Peter, my next-door neighbour (aka 'Toad'), and our friend, Jerry who refers to his forecastle cabin as ‘the front room’... Sailing was almost a burden for this... Continue Reading →

Richard writes: We had left Hejira at Queen Anne's Battery Marina in Plymouth while Nick returned home for a full family holiday in the USA where their son, Ollie and his family live. Although QAB is within the same MDL group of marinas and offer a free berthing swap, it was not as simple as... Continue Reading →

Trying to avoid a boring, chronological travelogue of ‘what we did on our holidays’, I will try to stick to the mildly interesting features. On the passage to Fowey, we witnessed a pod of dolphins, all slapping their tails on the surface. This is what the internet says about the activity: “Dolphins slap their tails... Continue Reading →