The adventure continues… By Eric Loss – Skipper We arrived in Madeira yesterday afternoon after a fabulously fast 24 hour’s run of 207nm. It’s been an interesting passage from Plymouth – a textbook frontal system with near gale force winds and driving rain in the Bay of Biscay, lots of […]
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Back Aboard… By Eric Loss – Skipper After four months off this summer, then a few weeks docked, it’s a bit odd to be back underway aboard Sea Dragon. Everything is laden with the familiarity of the last five years of experience, but just different enough to be new – […]
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The Final Push… By Kat Law – Deckhand Having had a fantastic stay in London’s Hermitage Moorings, being overlooked by Tower Bridge, we made our way back down the Thames. We were escorted by the PLA as we were allowed to conduct a manta trawl in the Thames! As we […]
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The adventure continues… By Kat Law – Deckhand As we passed through the final lock, we were all sad to be leaving the canal and its calm beauty, but excited to get more sailing underway! We were blessed with calmer weather than previous trips and so the crew managed to […]
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Caledonian: Crew Changeovers and Canals Kat Law and Diane Reid By Kat Law – Deckhand Our final run of eXXpedition Round Britain Leg 1- from Belfast into Arran was definitely the most enjoyable and rewarding of the first Leg of the expedition so far. We eventually had some nice off […]
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The ‘E’ in ‘WOBBLE By Kat Law – Deckhand After a busy couple of days in Cardiff, the eXXpedition crew and I were getting ready to set sail again. Skipper Diane assigned me the task of ‘wobbling’ the engine. To the uninitiated this is an acronym in order to remember […]
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A baptism of bouncy seas By Kat Law – Deckhand Despite being secured to the dock in Cardiff, having completed our first journey on the eXXpedition voyage circumnavigating the UK, the guest crew has had little chance for down time as they have a full program of activities. However, I […]
Read MoreeXXpedition Round Britain is a three-part mission aboard S/V Sea Dragon, circumnavigating Great Britain in August/September 2017
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by Damona Brown – Guest Crew Manta Trawling on Sea Dragon Today, at sea it was very calm and eventful I began on watch duty at 12pm. Then, Dr. Edwards decided to include some science. We took out the Manta trawl and set it up in the sea to catch […]
Read Moreby Keanan Jenkins – Guest Crew Pavement art Horta Marina Today, Sea Dragon is setting sail with its newest crew members from Faial to Sao Jorge in the Azores. Many of the guest crew are brand new to sailing and are excited to be crewing a ship of this magnitude. […]
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by Max Patterson – Guest Crew 36 45N 43 11 W Atlantic Ocean These past few days the crew has enjoyed the privilege of the soft lullaby of a diesel engine to soothe us into a deep sleep. With the winds almost constantly, either too weak or coming from a […]
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by Rayenne Hale – Guest Crew Sea Dragon Who would have thought the most bruises would be amassed in the washroom or the heads as they are called aboard… Conveniently it is also a great place to gain arm strength as one has to pump a handle quite fervently to […]
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