What We Are Doing
Well here we are, planning a trip around the UK coast, we leave on the 12th of June for the 2 and a half month trip, in a boat about the length of a modern estate car. Crazy? Foolhardy?

Well we like to think so.

The aim of this sponsored sail is to raise money for the Fellowship Afloat's bursary fund, which provides oppurtunities for people to enjoy outdoor activities who might otherwise not be able to afford it.

One of Fellowship Afloat's big goals is to allow as many people as possible the oppurtunity to enjoy the activities that the centre provides. Over the years this has meant subsidising the costs for many individuals and groups.

The fund setup to provide for these groups and individuals has been supported over the years by generous legacy's and donations, but this has over the last three years been depleted as Fellowship Afloat has sought to offer itself to more.

We plan with this trip to replenish the bursary fund, our goal £10,000 is the amount that Fellowhsip Afloat spent last year from this fund, and if we can raise it will guarantee another years worth of support.

Please keep checking this page as we update it with our location and the tales of our travels around the UK. If you would like to donate money to the bursary fund Click on the link at the top of the page.
Jelly Fish Clothing
Do you want to help raise awareness of our trip, or perhaps just need a few more T-shirts to get you through the summer?

Have a look at the range of clothes you can buy with our logo here. 15% of all sales goes to Fellowship Afloat Bursury Fund.
A general update
Firstly, an apology for not blogging very often, or fully, recently. We have been out of mobile signal between the Isle of Man and the mainland, and also crossing Cardigan Bay- making updates impossible. We have also been doing some sailing at crazy hours (like 4pm until 3am from Fishguard to Dale), meaning the only thing we do when we arrive is go to bed! We endeavour to do better.

Today we have been busy sorting the boat and re-stocking. We got out our inflatable tender and rowed ashore to find water and fuel. Water was easy to find, but to get  to the petrol station we had to get a bus- which was a bit of an adventure. We made friends with a walker at the bus stop and the bus driver, as well as an old man outside Tesco, and a little boy at the other bus stop!

As I write this, we are on a floating pontoon, with the boat nice and tidy, and ready to go in the morning. We are hoping to leave at a more respectable time than recently (about 11am) and start making our way across the Bristol Channel.

Moored for the night at Lat: 51.7050 Long: –5.1535

1 comments:

corribee@tiscali.co.uk said...

Late start hey means egg and bacon first then watch out Bristol Channel here we come lol. Nicky

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About the Boat
The boat, Jellyfish, is a 21ft Mark II Corribee built in 1980. She is a bilge keel (two short fins on either of side), which makes her ideal for the East Coast where she is moored.

Although easliy controlled by one person we have decided to do this together because 10 weeks on your own sounds like a long time to us, and the challenge of coping with each other for that long will undoubtedly create some intersting posts!
Corribees are well known for their sea worthiness. Dame Ellen MacArthur sailed around Britain in Iduna, her own Corribee, when she was 18 years old. Since then several have crossed the Atlantic, although we don't plan on going that far yet.

For more information on the boat you can go to the Corribee Class Association website, for more information about our trip have a look at our Big Plan