The countdown begins, 2 years to go…
In a little under 2 year’s time, Ian will have started The 2022 Golden Globe Race, 54 years after the legendary journey was completed by Sir Robin Knox-Johnston....
Pre-Race
A new Yankee for the new Solent stay…
Very exiting delivery from Sanders Sails gave us a chance to exercise the new solent stay....
Keeping the lights on with Victron…
I’m delighted to announce that Victron Energy along with UK Marine Electronics Ltd. have agreed to come on board and support our GGR campaign....
Back on the water but nothing to drink…
Time to tackle our contaminated main water tank....
Back on the water at last…
With the easing of lockdown restrictions in Wales we were able to blast through the last remaining "on shore" jobs and get Puffin back into her element and alongside her new mooring at Plas Heli Sailing Club in sunny Pwllheli....
A Celestial weekend with 59 North Sailing
Keeping in the spirit of putting lockdown time to good use, I joined Andy Schell and August Botne Sandberg of 59 North Sailing over the weekend for the 2nd part of their virtual Celestial Navigation workshop....
Refit Update – May 2020
Rewind the clock… Back to March 23rd and pre lockdown, we had been rushing to get Puffin back in the water that week, fearing the start of restrictions....
Update from lockdown
It's been a while… Hi team, I’ve held off from updates over the recent weeks assuming everyone would have more important things on their minds and thinking that my Puffin refit posts seemed pretty trivial compared to a worldwide pandemic....
Sun sights? We should be so lucky!
Putting the dark days of February to good use, between storm Ciara and storm Dennis, I’ve just had a great week Hamble School of Yachting doing the Royal Yachting Association Ocean Theory course....
At the Boot Düsseldorf
Fantastic to catch up with the GGR team at the Boot Düsseldorf show this week....