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Moondance reste

Circumnavigation complete!

51 38.2N 000 40.7E 2750miles and 140 days after leaving Devon, Moondance & crew arrive at North

All dinghly donghly again.

3/3. Catherine & kind taxi man John reappear and in the distance we see Donald, valiantly rowing

2/3. We hail water taxi who takes us to MD, then Donald & Catherine go with taxi on midnight sea

Dinghyless!

Dark and late, we emerge from a lively evening in pub, to discover that the dinghy, built by Adrian

Pin Mill to Brightslingsea

51 48.2N 001 01.3E Brightlingsea. Adrian & Catherine get up at 4am to catch tide. Arrived by 10a

51 58.3N 001 16.5E Felixstowe-River Orwell. Long tedious sail past Sizewell power station, enlivened

The Last Cardinal

52 28.30N 001 45.10E Lowestoft, after good speedy passage. UK's most easterly point rather less pict

Oriental Gannets

54 00.9N 000 00.0E Have crossed Greenwich Meridian. We are now in Orient. Heading for East Anglia. G

On fetes, fates and F8s

54 17.0N 000 23.4WScarborough. V excitin start2 trip,F5 turns out 2be nearly F8 so boat almost

54 29.0N 000 36.7WAdrian is hobbling like a cripple after strenuous dancing with Hammersmith M

Whitby folk week

Well, we have been in Whitby for a week now, in a whirl of concerts, ceilidhs, workshops (with no to

Rachel's pics of the Caledonian Canal

Glorious new vistas opened before us as we sailed up Loch Ness.

What the folk?!

Arrived Whitby for a whole week of folk, in both senses. Lovely sail here inc first whale (minke) of

Free Parking

54 41.4N 001 12.0WHartlepool. Lovely sailing today. Exciting heeling Moondance, leaping fish.

Chunderland

54 55.1N 001 22.0WSunderland. Two puffins & more seals wooshing through the Farnes. Porrid

Tues. First toilet trouble of the voyage. Tim valiantly volunteers to investigate. An eel is found j

We want puffin. We get nuffin but muffin.

55 40.0N 001 47.7WHoly Island. Drizzly, dull sail North. Now at anchor surrounded by seals, bu

55 20.2N 001 35.0WAmble. Rainy day in exciting Newcastle (by bus & metro), kites, quayside

It was only the West Highland Halfway really.

quite hard work overnight. No-one slept because of rolling motion and rain made steering dull. Andy

Twees in the Tweed

55 07.18N 001 29.74WRiver Tweed in spate, unable 2 enter Berwick. Instead used strong N wind 2

Surfin dudes

55 48.0N 001 42.0WBack in England after 3 months away. Surfing downhill overnight.

damp and stinky (us, not the harbour)

56 57.6N 002 12.0WStonehaven. Faster, rainy downwind progress since corner. Dice with oil rig

Deep sea seals

57 42.4N 002 00.0WFinally going round the bend after 28 hours beating to windward. Large seal

We have been on holiday for a week, so no blog recently, gradually working our way back down the Cal

Moondance

Latest news:

Moondance rested for a few weeks in the river Crouch, gathering a few choice botanical specimens on her underside, until last week when a crack crew consisting of Francoise, Peter, Antarctic Andy and Greg beat around the Forelands and down channel to Moondance's new home in the river Itchen. Hopefully that's the last time for a good while that she'll have to do the dreaded Channel slog.

Moondancing around the UK

Follow Adrian and Lucy (and friends) as they take Moondance around the UK. The circumnavigation started in North Fambridge in September 2007, and after a lengthy hiatus for a refit in Exeter they're off again! Plan is to wander past the Scillies, mooch up the West Coast of Ireland, meander through the Hebrides and then zoom down the boring East Coast to Essex.

Latest pics: A couple of rather nice shots of Moondance in the Caledonian canal, thanks to Tim (SY Apelia).

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If you've been on board and would like to write an entry for the blog, or would like to stick some pics up here, drop me a line at andy@midsummerenergy.co.uk.

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