Summer CruisesEach year PYC organise one or two Summer Cruises away from the Solent. Club members request places week by week. The destinations are selected based on feedback from Club members. The destinations from previous years : 2024 Southern Ireland and France and the Channel Islands 2023 Scotland 2022 Normandy and Channel Isles 2021 West Country 2020 France and Channel Islands - planned, but cancelled due to Covid Pandemic restrictions 2019 South Brittany 2018 Scotland 2017 Netherlands 2016 South Brittany Summer Cruise 2025In 2025, we are planning two summer cruises. The first from Gosport to the Baltic Sea and the second to the South West and the Isles of Scilly. Details will be added in the coming weeks. Summer Cruise 2024In 2024, we ran two Summer Cruises. One from Gosport to Southern Ireland for 9 weeks, and the second to France and the Channel Islands for 7 weeks. Crews booked for a week or more. This allowed a lot of fun sailing in different places around Western Europe. Some crew reports will be added here in due course. Summer Cruise 2023In 2023, we ran a Summer Cruise to North West Scotland from Gosport and via South West, Wales and Ireland. Here are a couple of reports from two of our crews from this cruise. Report 1 - “St Kilda or Bust” was the name of the WhatsApp group the crew created for their summer cruise leg sometime in late spring. The thought that this name might call my judgment as skipper into question only occurred to me later! No guarantees that we would actually make it, but there was certainly a strong desire to try. See more details here. Report 2 - Here is a second very brief report from The Sound of Islay.
The Sound of Islay – the Paps of Jura to starboard - 2023 We motored through the Sound of Islay in lovely scenery, followed by a good sail to the moorings at Loch Stoaosnaig on Colonsay – and only one other buoy was occupied overnight. With tides and weather dictating an early start the following morning it was not worth the trouble of getting the dinghy out to visit the nearby village of Scalasaig – there’s not much there apart from a hotel anyway! |
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