Category: Cruising Logs

Miss Piggy’s Lament Roughly sung to an out of tune ‘My Bonny lies over the ocean’. [By Miss Piggy, John Apps’ windvane steering system] 1st Verse Miss Piggy helms in the ocean, Miss Piggy steers in the sea, Miss Piggy helms in the ocean, And I do it all for free, for free. I do…

  Bob Hazell Pipistrelle Bob Hazell writes about Pipistrelle’s route from Antigua to Ireland in 2017, which was enhanced by Martin Goodchild flying in to the Azores to join him for the passage.   Transatlantic Passage 2017, Antigua to Ireland, with thanks to the GXSA!   Having completed our circumnavigation, Elaine and I agreed that…

Gordon Sims Chimere is a little and very old wooden boat, so our cruises are less adventurous and exotic than those of many fellow GXSA members.  But just occasionally we come across something that might be of interest to a wider audience even if it is only marginally “boaty”.  This year we discovered a marvellous…

Upstream from Marlow Shetland 27 ‘NAIAD II’ Goes as far as possible West by David Horn, February 2017 {extravote 2017} Tuesday 16th August 2016 was a beautiful hot day, ideal for starting a River Thames Cruise. With NAIAD visible on her pontoon from the window it was just a matter of shopping for perishables and…

Upstream from Marlow Shetland 27 ‘NAIAD II’ Goes as far as possible West Home, in Marlow Tuesday 16th August 2016 was a beautiful hot day, ideal for starting a River Thames Cruise. With NAIAD visible on her pontoon from the window it was just a matter of shopping for perishables and loading last minute things…

Bornholm, Island in the Sun By John Apps  Bornholm marked in red. Denmark is white. It is claimed that the island of Bornholm has more sunny days than anywhere else in Denmark. In summer the sun does certainly seem to shine constantly and a high seems to settle over that part of the Baltic and…

Gordon Sims  Gordon and Pauline took their old wooden cruiser “Chimere” up the non-tidal Thames in 2016, stopping off at the Thames Traditional Boat Festival on the way. This is what they found……..   Thames boating in style! There is something about wooden boats that stirs even the most glass reinforced heart. The shine of…

Gordon Sims The story of “Chimere” Back to the sea – via a major refit Chimere is old.  By modern standards, very old.   This is the story of how she was given an additional lease on life and returned to the sea where she had started work over 100 years ago. My introduction to boating…