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End of 2025 season in Stornoway Inner Harbour before moving to Newton Marina for overwintering Early September, OH in the company of Stornoway lifeboats, Inner Harbour

Trips 1 to 5 Total 1803 nm Trip 5 Aarhus to Travemunde added, could be reviewed to take in more of Denmark and subject to weather Route may vary to take in more of Denmark and subject to weather and facilities for overwintering

Summary Passage Plan. Stornoway to Aarhus 29th April to 24th August Subject to weather etc. plan is to get into Norway in the first 7 to 10 days in May then spend the remaining time cruising up to Trondheim where we will leave the boat Trip 1. Stornoway to Trondheim 29th April to 18th May Trip 1. 29th April to 18th May Stornoway to Trondheim, stopping at Skullomi, Rousay, Sumburgh, Baltasound and entry to Norway via Floro, Alesund or Kristiansund should the weather dictate T

What Went Wrong ? Saturday 6th September: The plan was to travel up to Stornoway, provision the boat and start making our way back down to Ardrossan where OH was booked in for the winter ashore, We were joined for the trip by Guy and Hugh, both previous crew members, and planned to work our way, via St Kilda off the west coast, if the weather was favourable, and then south through the Western Isles . It wasn`t ! To wind back a week, while still in Exmouth we had been taking f

Provisional thoughts on passage plan from Ardrossan to Stornaway, all subject to wind, weather and tides of course ! Sunday 10th August...

16th July to 30th July Crew on this leg Pete, Karen and Hugh Taylor Wednesday 16th July The day started with a taxi pick up from Exmouth...

13th June to 25th June Friday 13th June: Crew Pete, Karen, Nigel Burke, Claire Mills Pete, Karen and Nigel departed from Exmouth station...

13th to 25th June Having established that Harbour works in Waterford were preventing the use of the City Marina until 2026 we have now...

16th April Wednesday. Crew Pete, Karen, Hugh Taylor, Roger Brisley. OH Exit Turf Lock and passage to Noss Marina on The Dart for a...

The cruising for this year was originally going to be in a southerly direction as an antidote to the more Northerly latitudes we have...

October Exmouth to Salcombe Return Via Dartmouth 87nm Friday 4th departed Exmouth 09.30 arrived Salcombe 21.54 I was joined by Rob Vince,...

Friday 6th September Ijmuiden to UK Due to unhelpful weather forecasts we have made some revisions to our itinerary. Instead of exiting...

Lubeck to Amsterdam August 9th August 11th Karen Strandhusen to Rendsburg What a day! the alarm went off at 5 am and we were all up on...

Well the best laid plans and all that——!! Apologies for not starting this blog sooner. Pete has had to leave Ocean Hound to return to...

11th July. Exmouth We are gearing up to return to Szczecin next Wednesday 17th and I have been drawing up a draft itinerary to get OH to...

12th June Crew Pete, Karen, Rob Vince, Julia Green Very early 04.00 start from Exmouth to pick Julia up from Exeter and make the drive to...

More pictures that I wasn`t easily able to add in Sweden due to reliance on mobile hot spots. Apologies for any repetition ! Vaxholme...

Thursday 16th May. Having weathered one storm after another in Exmouth in recent months we began to see a general improvement. The UK...

Due to unforeseen circumstances we have deferred the launch date, originally planned for 23rd April and have rearranged it for 17th May....

Since leaving Ocean Hound in Svinninge Marina in August, Sea and Land Service, the local Volvo Marine Engineers who are based at the...