A trip around Holy Island (Arran)
The $100 Million super yacht Sea Eagle II was visiting the beautiful island of Arran. I had a paddle out to her in Lamlash Bay before circumnavigating Holy Island. Lamlash Bay, Arran and Holy Island are stuningly beautiful. I will be going back. My boat is better than yours! Distance: 6.4 nm Time: 1 hour...Continue reading→
The Sugar Boat wreck off Helensburgh
The Sugar Boat, or correctly named MV Captayannis was anchored off Greenock at the Tail of the Bank waiting to unload a cargo of raw sugar from East Africa for processing at the Tate and Lyle refinery when, on the night of 27th January 1974, a fierce gale caused her to drag her anchor. The...Continue reading→
An Aborted Anglesey Circumnavigation Attempt
This year, every time I've planned for a date to do the Anglesey circumnavigation, something would happen; mainly the weather ie. far too windy, or family stuff would clash. All the dates I had planned for this year just came and went. This year hasn't exactly been great for me getting to the coast and...Continue reading→
Mull
A Mull non-circumnavigation. The Si's trip to Mull to circumnavigate Mull by sea kayak, cut short by appalling weather and other unlikely events. After a long spell of fine weather, you may ask why were we going now? Well it's all to do with holidays of one "Si", the OT and the OTM, read on....Continue reading→
Surprise Skerries
We were only supposed to go to Middle Mouse, but conditions were so fab we ended up doing the Skerries! Brill day and a great end to a long weekend!
Silver Bay Stacks foggy
Paddling in a sauna! Fab day!
Cemlyn Bay into the wind and swell to Camaes, then around Carmel Head – Roller Coaster Sea!
The wind forecast was for a moderate Easterly breeze. For some crazy reason, we decided to head up to the north coast to see how far we could go into the wind from Cemlyn Bay. The flood tide was due to start around 09:40, so we were going to be in wind over tide conditions....Continue reading→
Stacks Trearddur
Liverpool Tides for 09/06/2023 BST M 03:27 8.67 HW 10:29 1.75 LW 16:01 8.05 HW 22:50 2.35 LW Penrhyn Mawr (PM) floods about 3:30 hours after HW Liverpool. Consequently, it was already flooding from about 07:00 (03:27 +03:30 = 06:57). As we were setting off from Porth-y-Post at 09:15, well, it would be rude not...Continue reading→
Helensburgh Sugar Boat in very windy conditions
Friday Lunchtime: I had some time to kill before setting off for home from Dunbartonshire. With it being a public holiday weekend for King Charles Coronation, I didn't see much point setting off at lunchtime, only to hit the holiday traffic below Preston, Manchester and Stoke on the M6. Setting off much later, say after...Continue reading→
Menai Straits
The weather forecast for Wednesday was not at all good. Si and I went and took a look at Trearddur Bay and we were not impressed. Very windy, Rain showers, big seas and flat broken waves. Fine if you fancy being bongo'd sideways constantly, but neither of us did. So we chatted to the mad...Continue reading→
Bull Bay to Camaes
Meeting on a Tuesday for a change, Si and I decided to paddle the North Coast. We love paddling the North Coast of Anglesey, as there is always something to see. Not to mention the large tidal movements you experience along this stretch of coast. High Water (HW) would be at 11:16 am Liverpool, which...Continue reading→
Trearddur Bay
Sunday, the weather was not looking too promising. The forecast stated conditions would deteriorate with strong winds increasing throughout the day. So, after a hearty breakfast in the Paddlers, we decided to head for Trearddur Bay. Initially, we talked about heading around the coast towards Rhoscolyn, but soon after setting off from the beach, we...Continue reading→
