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Day 6 and morning of 7

Day 5 - continued

Day 5

Day 4

Day 3

Day 1 and Day 2

A flying start from Jock in full view of his Tighnabruaich neighbour on RFA Wave Knight - who wasn’t looking! The route takes the boats...

So Jock has his springs coiled and the unofficial NOSTAR is set to get underway tomorrow, Sunday 9th May 2021 at 12:00. The start line is...

Day 3 - Yesterday was far pleasanter, we had sun and smaller seas. I was goosewinged from 0800 and under almost all plain sail except...

Day 2. Thursday morning is much nicer. Yesterday was good for progress but bad for expletives. Monday night I was up every hour to have a...

Jock and Katherine’s Dad, Peter, used this chart to track his Atlantic crossings nearly 70 years ago. Using the latest technology and...

Well, that’s me set off, well, hopefully as far as Plymouth in any case. I left at 1000 to a departure committee on the pier which was...

Charlotte’s Nostar I had been preparing to enter the OSTAR or Original Single Handed Transatlantic Race last year. This was to have been...

Jock Hamilton and sailing the Atlantic. I had been intending to sail across the Atlantic in my boat last year, 2020, because I thought it...