Mersea Island to Dartmouth ...

This time we took Carronade VII of Tortola from her home in West Mersea, Essex to Dartmouth in Devon. It took us 42 hrs and we covered 277 nautical miles ... giving us an average speed of 7 knots. Mid-sail we ran the gaunlet of the Round the Island fleet who were heading past St. Catherine's Lighthouse in the opposite direction and we decided that there must be about 10 Portland Bills as it took forever to get past it !!!

The whole route ...

A more global perspective ...

Leaving from West Mersea ... Club Launch to yacht and then we are off ...

Arriving in Dartmouth ... it was 2.30 am :)

Ireland to Newcastle ...

Here's a route that the new Garmin Nüvi 770 recorded for me ... From Enniskillen in Ireland to Newcastle via Birmingham ... Unfortunately I learnt the trip log on the 770 is only holds your last 10k points so I lost the first part of our holiday that was in the other direction ... apparently newer models archive it off ... come on Garmin give us this facility in an update :)

Round trip to get the post ...

What do you do in the morning when you need to get your post ... take a trip into the city of course! Here's a round trip route :)