This year Labrador was the great cruising ground I had remembered. Less ice than last year (apart from the 64 sq km Peterman ice island which calved off northern Greenland) but more whales than you could poke…

The Faroes are jewels – steep, misty, emerald-capped cliffs with wheeling seabirds, strong tide rips and tiny deep fishing harbours. A lovely stopover if ever I saw one. We arrived at 5 am today out of a wet…

We finished our transatlantic crossing yesterday when we tied up in Scalloway in the Shetland Islands. The only sailboat among hundreds of beautiful, tiny local fishing boats. Treeless hills, purple heather, shetland ponies like in kiddies picture…

We arrived in Fair Isle after a lovely fast sail down from the Shetlands.   It is a tiny, very beautiful island with steep cliffs, a few sheep and a population of 70. All of them knitting…

We departed Fair Isle on a calm, sunny morning. We motored past the crags under Skroo Light and marvelled at the myriad seabirds wheeling round the white cliffs. North Ronaldsay light was visible long before…