Cruising: Return to Paradise

PBR’s Channel Island correspondent, Joe Mourant, helps us blow away the last of the winter cobwebs by setting a course for the paradisaic Chausey archipelago. After reading this article, you may well be tempted to plan a summer voyage to this enchanting location yourself … As we cautiously begin to move beyond the era of the pandemic, adventures previously postponed can be looked at anew. Here in the Channel Islands, there is no better encapsulation of new horizons appearing than our ability to visit the French archipelago of Chausey once again. Sadly, this incomparable cruising ground has remained

West Coast Heavy Weather

claire harris2023-09-26T20:39:27+00:0026th September 2023|FEATURES|

HMS recounts an excerpt from his account, as published in the latest edition of the global best-seller Heavy Weather Sailing, of the occasion when on passage from Newport to Killybegs, he and a flotilla of RIBs faced a westerly gale and 30ft seas. The forecast was not good for leaving Newport, County Mayo – an initially ‘on-the-nose’ north-westerly, with a wind strength of force 7, increasing later. After some consideration, we decided to set out with the intention of reaching Killybegs, some 80nm to the north, but on the understanding that we would return to port if the conditions