A Really Rough Plan for 2025 - 49° 38' 46" N 01° 34' 27" W

By Kate and Sean -


After the success we had sticking to our 2024 plan (ha ha!), we decided to tempt fate and plot out our next year or so.  As always, this is very preliminary, lacks detail and is subject to change: but here goes...

November - December 2024

Chinook splashes tomorrow after a four and a half month stint on the hard. We will move back aboard and reacquaint ourselves with her.  We have spent almost as much time aboard Voyager as we have on Chinook so we will be forgiven for thinking someone has moved the pepper shaker ... and everything else! We have a new sail to learn how to use (whoo hoo!) and lots of sorting and list making to keep us busy.  If we have a weather window, we will head to the Channel Islands for a week or so.

Wendy and Graeme arrive on 1 December so we will give them a few days to get settled then start looking for a weather window to cross The Channel to England. For the rest of the 2024, we will be bobbing along the coast of England.



2025

Jan - May             UK/Ireland

Jun - Aug             Norway/Sweden/The Baltic Sea

Sep - Oct             UK/Ireland

Nov - Dec            Ireland to Azores across to The Caribbean

2026

Jan - Apr            The Caribbean

May                   The Caribbean across to Ireland

June                   Ireland/Faroe Islands

July                    Iceland

August               Greenland

September         Greenland to Ireland or The Azores (further research required)

October             Leave the boat and head to Australia for Emily and Jack's wedding


Fancy a visit?  We have a few visitors locked in already, particularly during the summer so let us know your rough dates.  And, as you know, we will give you a time or a place to meet us, but not both!!

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