Author: Margaret Pendzich

We hung out on a mooring ball in Oban Harbor for a few days to see the sights and reprovision. We toured the Oban Distillery but unfortunately they were in silent season, so we did not get to see the whiskey making process there either. The distillery is right on the waterfront and the city…

One of the best things about meeting other sailors is picking their brains for recommendations on places to go and places to skip. When headed to Belfast everyone said to stay in Bangor rather than Belfast. The marina in Belfast is in the middle of the dockyards, is very small, and there are few services…

We left Dun Laoghaire Marina near Dublin two days ago on a favorable weather window and had two days of glorious sailing. We covered about 42 nautical miles and to stop for the night at Carlingford Lough (Lake). We motored red up the lough and drop the hook in an anchorage area outside of a…

We’ve been in Dublin for two weeks and have been mixing sightseeing with boat projects. Getting from the Isles of Scilly to Dublin was not exactly the ultimate sailing experience. What little wind we had was blowing from he wrong direction. We were heading north and the wind was blowing out of the north —…

We have spent the last 8 days in the Falmouth area waiting for a favorable weather window to sail to the Isles of Scilly (pronounced silly). The winds have been blowing out of the west quite strongly which would have made our trip west to the Scillys long and uncomfortable. Since we are not on…

We picked up a mooring ball and figured that we would dinghy ashore in the morning to do some exploring. During the night, the weather became very unsettled due to a low pressure area over Northern Scotland bringing strong winds and rain. We spent the next day hunkered down on Flight in the harbor being…

Our friend, Karen, who has sailed with us before met us in Lymington on Saturday evening to join us during the Summer Bank Holiday long weekend. We set out on Sunday morning, heading through the Needles with the wind, tide and current. The winds were light, the day was warm and sunny, and we had…

Lymington is my early favorite for cutest port in the UK. It has a long history of salt, smuggling, ship building and sailing  of which it is immensely proud. It was granted its first charter in 1200 so it is a very old town. The production of sea salt was important from the middle ages until the…

Over the weekend, we decided to head out of the Solent and go to Poole. This involved sailing through an area called the Needles which is a narrow channel with “shingles” (shallow, rocky area) on one side and a submerged point referred to as the Bridge on the other, both of which need to be…