Sailing Coconut

The last day of our trip to Vigo was very good. It wasn't very windy so we had to motor for a lot of the last day of the trip. I (Fergus) did a night watch with Mummy and Tom. There were lots and lots ...

We finished our time in Cornwall with a couple more days staying at Mimi’s house, we saw our cousins again and then we moved back onto the boat on Thursday. On Friday morning we ...

We were expecting to write a departure blog soon having left Mylor this afternoon. Unfortunately, you may see on the tracker that we are heading to Newlyn. Don't panic, no major disaster has befallen ...

We've been in Cornwall for nearly two weeks while we've had some work done to Coconut and done work on the boat ourselves. We've been staying with our granny Mimi in lostwithiel and got to see our ...

On Friday afternoon, after we met Emilia, we showed her all around the boat and did the safety briefings, then we had some dinner and got ready to set sail. We left Dun Laogharie and motor sailed down ...

After leaving Scotland on the evening of Saturday 10th, we made good time overnight and by dawn were off Kintyre. We decided to continue on to Carrickfergus, and arrived at lunchtime on Sunday. On Su ...

It's been a while since our last update as we've been busy meeting up with lots of friends which has been a great treat. After our windy day at anchor in Loch Sunart on Friday 2nd, on Saturday mornign ...

We needed to leave Tobermory on Wednesday lunchtime because there was a fleet of racing boats doing "West Highland Yachting Week" coming into Tobermory who had reserved all the berths. We left Tobermo ...

We've just had a great week managing to see several highlights of the West Coast. At the end of Archie and Fergus's last post, we'd been to St Kilda, got to Barra and had a day in Castlebay. The foll ...

Daddy saw a possible gap in the weather, so we decided that instead of going to the Shiant Islands we would try to get to St Kilda. St Kilda is a group of Islands about 45 miles West of the Outer Hebr ...