Richard Steward's Sailing Blog. Single-handed (64%) anti-clockwise circumnavigation of England, Scotland and Wales via the Caledonian Canal and the Shetland Isles in Freedom Flight, a Freedom 35 cat-rigged ketch with a lifting keel, built for Sir John Oakeley in 1981. I have owned her since 2000. Start date - May 5th 2013 Shotley, Suffolk, return 30th August 2013. Crew - John Eastwood, Neil Rice, Roger Tutt, Matthew Steward. 56 passages 2109 miles, 37 single-handed 1368 miles.
Monday 17 June 2013
Day 43 (16/6/13)
Lochinver to Stornoway (Lewis)
(39/897nm)
Depart 0800, Arrive 1430.
Wind NE F4/5.
Sunny and a perfect beam wind. Four porpoises appeared briefly.Basking shark seen in Stornoway Bay.
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