Spellbinder left Gosport on May 24th, heading down to Land’s End and up the Irish Se to Scotland.  In recent weeks she has cruised to Oban and the Small Isles, out to the Outer Hebrides, around Cape Wrath and is currently in Orkney.

I plan to explore Orkney before coming back via the Caledonian Canal for the Wild Atlantic Way in S and SW Ireland 11-17 July, if quarantine restrictions have been lifted in Ireland. Thereafter, and if we can go abroad, southern Brittany is a possibility for August, and the Spanish rias beckon in September.