Good Afternoon All, I am sitting here in Holyhead and I am going through the weather charts and pilots for the next stage of the trip and I realised how I hadn’t really mentioned anything in my blogs about the WIFI On Board! I must admit when the package arrived …
Greetings from Holyhead, Yesterday I made the move from Pwllheli to Holyhead on Anglesey. This was to be a good 60 mile day but listening to the forecasts and looking at the weather it was going to be a low wind day. I set off from Pwllheli two and half …
I have made it to Pwllheli. I have today made the trip up to North Wales from Aberystwyth where I have spent the last 2 days as the weather has pinned me in there. I was planning on leaving there yesterday but the weather was giving a force 7 so …
Hello all from Aberystwyth. I had a lovely and peaceful night on the buoy in Fishguard and awoke to beautiful sunshine and just a light breeze, but little did I know now what was to come. I set off following looking at the weather and listening to the coastguard’s forecast …
I have spent the last two days in Milford Haven as yesterday I was visited by my first Boatshed Broker and the founder Mike de-Graff. The day was then taken up with planning the next leg of the journey and all the preparations and plans were laid to head up …
I have arrived in Milford Haven. It was what can only be described as an experience entering the Haven at night! I arrived at the mouth of the Haven just after 2am this morning and following the channel markers in took all the concentration I had, it was like picking …
Well today has seen the start of what has been in the making for the past 15 months. I departed Cardiff this morning at 11am and I am making a steady passage to Milford heaven for the first stop on the journey. As I write this I am up on …
Good Morning All, Today I have come away from the sea and up to rural Bedfordshire to have all of my sailing clothing printed with the logo’s for the charity. We have just over a week left until the departure date and I must admit it is coming around with …
A Message from Alex Luddington Plans are well underway for my journey around Britain and I have been away in Ireland doing a shakedown run to make sure the boat is all OK and we are up and running which was very succsesful. I will be departing Cardiff in the …
Wifionboard are pleased to be supporting the Britain to Starboard project by Alex Luddington. This solo trip around Britain is to raise funds in the memory of Alex’s young friend Francesca who died at the age of nine years old from Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma. The trip is to enact her last …