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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.
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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.
11 WEEKS TO GO
Well, since the photo's of Mary under the boat were taken, she has run aground again!  It's ok though, she did it on purpose, in order to fit two transducers to the underside of the boat.  This means that we can now tell the depth under the keel, and our speed through the water- both vital pieces of information for getting us into harbour, and there in time!

According to www.justgiving.com/jellyfishadventures we have now reached 3% of our target.  This is great news, but publicity has had to step up a gear otherwise we will never get to £10,000.  I have therfore been contacting all sorts of people, and have had some results.  On the 12th of April at 9:40am I will be interviewed on BBC Radio Essex!  This will be the first of three interviews with them, also to include one just before we leave, and one just as we return home.  This is very exciting, if a little nerve-wracking!

Work on the boat is almost finished, and so over Easter weekend we will be out on the water to test out the new sails (courtesy of Jeckells) and iron out any other boat-relateed issues.  We will try to post on here while we are out, so keep looking for regular updates.

Thank you for all your support so far

Becky (and Mary)
Posted by Jellyfish at Wednesday, March 31, 2010
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Jelly Fish Scrubbed and Antifouled!

Having finished my term at Cambridge, I am now back in Tollesbury doing the last few jobs on Jelly Fish.  With the help of Chris and Ruth we ran her aground on Quarters spit to do a spot of cleaning and painting.


We left Tollesbury at midnight and took the ground at about 1.  After a couple of hours sleep we got up to watch the sun rise and began scraping off all the barnacles and a lot of Tollesbury mud.  The water was a long way away so lots of trips to collect water.  Cooked breakfast followed, and then the painting began. Most ended up on the hull of Jelly Fish, however a substantial amount remains on our clothing and skin!  The sun was out so the paint dried faster than the tide rose.  We got a second coat where necessary, and then waited for her to float.  Having floated we realised the masking was still on! We tried to get off as much as possible!


The weather has been amazing this week for working on Jelly Fish.  The other jobs that have been started this week are the revarnishing of exterior woodwork, sorting out electrics, and a general sort out of the boat.  

Jelly Fish's new sails are due to arrive tomorrow thanks to Jeckells Sails, so a sail in order to test them out will be required in the following week.

Posted by Jellyfish at Wednesday, March 17, 2010
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Shakedown Time
Well, I have spent the day in labs at university, conducting scientific testing for my dissertation.  No doubt Mary has spent the day looking at numbers and trying to remember what she is meant to be doing with them!  However, there is not much longer of this kind of work to go. In fact only 13 weeks until we leave.

So, other than university what have we been up to?

Well, last weekend was Shakedown at FACT- this is a great volunteer weekend, taking the boats out for the first sail of the season, and meeting plenty of new and old faces.  I was there for the whole weekend, promoting JF Adventures, as well as getting in some vital sailing practice before my Senior Instructor course in a few weeks.  Mary attended a sea survival course in Cambridge on the Saturday, but was able to join those of us on Big Red Boat in the evening.

So, all in all we have been busy preparing for the big adventure.  We still need to raise the money though, so click in the top-right corner to donate!

Becky (and Mary)

Over.
Posted by Jellyfish at Friday, March 12, 2010
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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