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Sailing Corribee Mwera
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03 Opsay Basin to Village Bay, St Kilda
This episode covers my passage out from the Sound of Harris to St Kilda which was about 50nm. I spent 2 nights on anchor in Village Bay, and spent my days exploring and soaking up the atmosphere of this remote island.
NB I made a mistake in my commentry..the radar station on Hirta was put up in the 1950's not WW1!!
NB I made a mistake in my commentry..the radar station on Hirta was put up in the 1950's not WW1!!
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02 Canna to Opsay Basin
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My journey towards St Kilda continues with 2 beautiful passages close reaching up the west coast of Skye and across the Minch to Opsay Basin at the beginning of the Grey Horse Channel.
01 Sheffield to Plockton to Canna
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Welcome back to another season of Sailing Corribee Mwera. This year I was based on the west coast of Scotland in Plockton Harbour. My first trip found me heading out to St Kilda and coming back via the Shiant Isles, both magical places to explore. I had challenges again with the quality of the audio on my videos, and part way through the season I got a wireless mike with a 'dead cat' which did ...
10 Blakeney back to Grimsby
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Well this is the final episode covering my round Britain sail in Mwera in 2023. I have one last passage to do, of 64nm/14 hours, across the Wash into the Humber estuary. It's a passage I've done a few times and the arrival in the Humber is always tough. Wind with strong tides makes for choppy seas! After a last night on anchor I go back into the HCA marina at Grimsby and enjoy a great welcome f...
Deck fittings modifications and replacement on a Corribee 21
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In this video I go through how I have modified or replaced some of the deck hardware on Mwera. Since many of our boats are of a similar age to Mwera I thought this might be of interest to others. The original fitting are cast aluminium which can corrode with age or develop cracks, especially where the is a combination of metals meeting. Not surprising after 46 years! The 3 fittings that were in...
09 Chichester to Blakeney
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In this episode I go from Shoreham Harbour near Brighton, past all the white cliffs of Dover and the rest, and round to cross the Thames Estuary up as far as Norfolk, where I end up anchored in Blakeney river on the sand. This is a part of the coast I've sailed on quite a bit now and as I get tired towards the end of the trip it is nice to be on familiar territory. www.crossingthethamesestuary....
08 Mwera round Britain, St Ives to Chichester
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In this episode I go round several significant headlands/tidal gates including Land's End, The Lizard and Portland Bill. I pass so many little rivers and harbours that would be perfect for Mwera, I'll just have to go back to the SW again to explore them! My son Tom joins me on board for a few nights
07 Mwera round Britain - Holyhead to St Ives
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A slightly longer episode than usual, partly because I had done more filming than sometimes, showing 2 long passages, first across Cardigan Bay from Holyhead to Solva harbour in Pembrokeshire, and then across the Bristol Channel, plus some underwater dolphin clips, and a visit to Skomer Island. All in all a bumper episode! Hope you enjoy it.
06 Mwera round Britain Port Ellen to Holyhead
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4 passages and 4 countries, and I pass the half way point on my circumnavigation completing. Not so much sailing footage in this one I'm afraid.
Round Britain in a small boat online talk 21_3_24
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This is a recording of an online talk I did yesterday for a diverse group of family, friends and sailors, summarising my round Britain trip with some Q&A at the end.
05 Mwera round Britain - Plockton to Port Ellen
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This is part 2 of my time exploring the west coast of Scotland during my round Britain trip. I visit 14 anchorages and harbours, including going out to the western isles for 6 days, and enjoy dry weather with favourable winds.
04 Stromness to Plockton final
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Another tidal race or roost, a tour of sea stacks, big swells, great sailing, some nostalgia as I revisit places from the past, ending with rest and recuperation in the shelter of Plockton harbour. This is part one of my time on the west coast of Scotland, part two will follow next week.
01a Cabin tour
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This is a new version of the cabin tour video, may be better quality... See how I've set up Mwera's cabin for my round Britain trip. Sorry for the blurry images, I think the GoPro lens was a bit salty!
03 Mwera round Britain, a week in Orkney
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All the pilot guides give strong warnings about the Pentland Firth and fair enough, with tidal stream of up to 9 knots and serious overfalls around every island. The recommendation is to make the crossing at neap tides with wind less than F5, and as the Visit My Harbour page says, if you do that you'll wonder what all the fuss was about. My plan to get here for the 14th May worked, it was neaps...
02 Mwera Round Britain 2023 Granton to Wick
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This is the second video in my series from my trip last year. I go from Granton to Wick via 5 harbours up the east coast of Scotland. I experience plenty of fog which made harbour entrances more exciting, see my first dolphins, and pay homage to Roger Taylor by visiting Whitehills, his base in Scotland from where he set off on trips to the Arctic. He inspired me with his philosophy of 'minimal ...
01 Mwera Round Britain Grimsby to Granton
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01 Mwera Round Britain Grimsby to Granton
Anchored behind Sungu Spit, Lake Malawi
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Anchored behind Sungu Spit, Lake Malawi
Grimsby to Scarborough via Flamborough Head
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Grimsby to Scarborough via Flamborough Head
Superb scenarys!! Good boat and true sailor!! Sorry from my English...❤
Excellent video.
Nice video, thanks for sharing.
Great video of a very impressive trip. Don’t think there was radar on Hirta in WW1 as it wasn’t invented until the 1930s
Thanks for the correction
Great video look forward to more !
Little boat - big adventure. Thanks for sharing your impressions. Fair winds!
Matter of legends. Thank you.
Very nice film and a fascinating story of the Island and it's people. I set a waypoint at the Village Bay (Loch Hiort). Thanks for sharing.
Nice, you were very lucky with the weather
…it is on my list…when I get my boat fixed.
Well done, a trip I'd like to do after seeing many other sailing channels go there.
@@normanrubenis7283 thanks, it's a good one. The Sound of Harris is interesting if you go that way, and there's some great beaches on the west side of the Western Isles as well. So much to explore around there!
@@normanrubenis7283 out of interest, I'm planning a junk rig conversion for Mwera! Just reading up on it at the moment.
Really interesting. Thanks!
great video, looking forward to seeing your passage across to St Kilda.
Be wary of the dreaded Canna kelp.
@@TroyaE117 your right. With the shallow draft i could go further in to where it's sandy
Inspirational thanks for sharing
Thanks for taking the time and trouble to upload this video.
You are a true sailor of blue waters. Sorry from my English.
Great stuff.
Excellent video, thanks for sharing :)
What does the name of your boat mean again??
It's the Chichewa name of the southerly prevailing wind on Lake Malawi, lived there for 20 years!
Mwera is the name for the south wind on Lake Malawi
Correct. Have you been there yourself?
Well done Sir! (Currently laid up in Edinburgh waiting to resume an anti clockwise RB from Southampton!)
What boat are you on?
@@sailingcorribeemweraW. Fulmar, bilge keel of course!
Great effort, thanks for sharing 😎
Saw you on a Jester delivery trip! Or maybe you're the Jester?!
@@sailingcorribeemwera not this year unfortuantely, just lending a hand
Congrats! Thanks for sharing, truly inspirational!
Really enjoyed and appreciated your excellent narrative. A job well done in so many ways. Thank you !!
Well done great effort and very successful outcomes. Thanks for sharing.
Ah...lovely Loch Nedd! Always calm and peaceful.....Bill
I’ve really enjoyed this series of your voyage. Thanks. What’s next?
I've got a few thoughts, round Ireland, Jester challenge (Baltimore, Ireland), exploring North Devon/Bristol Channel which I completely bypassed last year. This year I'm based in Plockton and have done a trip out to St Kilda through the Sound of Harris and back via the Shiants which was awesome.
Well done, I have enjoyed the series.
thanks for sharing.
Hi, thanks for the video. I'm looking for something like your bow roller to put on the stern of my boat. Would I be able to get one made up (are you based in Sheffield by any chance, a clue being in "city of stainless steel").
Hi yes I'm based in Sheffield. You too? Puzzled why you would want a bow roller type fitting on the stern?
@@sailingcorribeemwera Galway, but my daughter lives in Sheffield. I'm converting a Hurley 22 to a junk rig, filling up the front section with foam, and stowing the anchor and chain, etc, low in the boat. I hope I can do everything from the cockpit and avoid the front of the boat; plus, the boat has no engine, so any momentum used to set the anchor will probably be by stern skulling. Once I chose an unstayed mast, I suddenly found there was no need for the bow to be so pointy, which made me wonder if I also needed to anchor from the bow (most sea anchors used to be anchored from the bow, but now the 'way' seems to be from the stern). But, I'm sure much of this is nonsense!
@@AndyKirkpatrick50 I like it! Inspired by Roger Taylor and his Ming Ming adventures? Maybe we can chat further by Messenger... I'm Jes Bates on FB
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Easy, take the road to winchester until it cuts the M3 head north east up the M3 until you reach the M25 hang a left proceed along M25 until you reach the M11 turn off and follow M11 until A 11 turn off, follow A11 to fiveways Mildenhall take the brandon road pass through then onto swaffham proceed up to fakenham then walsingham and onto to Blakeney approx five hours
Hi. Just wanted to ask what chartplotter you're using please? Thanks for sharing your journey with us. Tony
Hi, its a samsung galaxy tab active, SM-T365, its waterproof, basic spec but mainly used for running a nav app so doesn't need to be too clever. From London Chartplotters, if you're in the UK.
@@sailingcorribeemwera Thanks. I wondered if it was one of theirs. I was just looking at them this afternoon. How have you found using it? Any advice please?
@@revtonyc relatively cheap and cheerful. It does the job, its not a fancy hi spec fast charging tablet but it does the job. You get raster type charts rather than the vector ones used on Navionics so the experience is more like using a paper chart. Got me round Britain last year! The guy at LCP is great, just trying to provide a way for people to get on the water without spending a fortune, gives a good service, helped me out with a repair on another tablet year. Visitmyharbour.com do the same thing and their website/ app has a lot of nav/pilotage info on it
Very muffled audio, is it me or you? I have really enjoyed your series.
Thanks, I'll have another listen. I must confess i did this one in a hurry before leaving Canna harbour!
I think it's just the live clip at the beginning, the rest seems OK
Well done. Don’t know when you went or which way but having also circumnavigated last year the weather was challenging on the west coast in the latter part of June and in July we me people in IOM who had been waiting 3 weeks for a window to get away. A Corribee wouldn’t have been my first choice so credit to you
I went anticlockwise from Grimsby, 1/5 to 30/7, got to IoM around 21st June. Somehow i missed the bad weather, except for a F8 gale when i was sheltering up the Dart, in mid July
Nice and very evocations....
Thanks, glad you enjoyed it
Nice
Hiya, great to see this! I’m from Sheffield but now living in Falmouth with a Corribee Lady Elizabeth (oh and 4 daughters and my wife) :) just wondering what make your wind vane is and also where you had your spray hood made as I’m looking to get one but struggling to source it? Thanks for posting the videos!
Hi, thanks. Wind vane is a Hebridean, windvaneselfsteering.co.uk/, there's also a FB page. Sprayhood made by Jeckles in Norfolk, www.jeckells.net/covers/, different company from Jeckles.co.uk the sailmakers
🎉congratulations.
Watching with my 2 year old son who loved the dolphins and seal. I’m a new sailor with a new to me Corribee, which I think is a late Mk 2. Great to see what they are capable of in capable hands. I also enjoyed seeing you sail in familiar surroundings as I’m in Cornwall. Thanks for the vids!
That's great, glad he enjoyed it😊
Wonderful footage and photos. The Corribee really is the prettiest little boat.
Well done Jes. Impressive amount of work you've put into compiling this.
Great video, lots of useful info. I am wondering how you got on buying petrol for your outboard?
Petrol can be hard to find nearby in some of the more remote areas, particularly in Scotland so I carried 2 jerrycans of 20l plus whatever was in my external fuel tank. In some harbours I had a mile or so walk to get petrol, in others the harbour master gave me a lift there and back! Probably I would have been fine with just the one 20l jerrycan and the 12l in my external tank which would be enough for 32 hours of motoring or approx 130 miles. Mwera ended up quite stern heavy with the fuel plus water (my water tank is under the cockpit sole). Mainly it was a matter of thinking ahead to where the next fuel would be available.
You're a source of great inspiration, and I find your journey truly motivating. I have also been in a few of the inspiring anchorages on the west coast, as well as being fortunate enough to have been in Iona Abbey. May you never be scunnered with our dreich weather ! Thanks again.
Wonderful, really enjoyed it. I'm working on a MKII at the moment, like you it's in my garden which is quite handy as it turns out. I've completed a lot of work but there's still a bit to do yet. Really enjoying it.
Excellent ! Very inspiring. Thank you very much.
It must have been profound to be immersed in that much gorgeous scenery, senses heightened from time spent alone, and share a time of worship at the Abbey on Iona. Just loving the magic of how you stitch all this together. You have a talent right there.
Perceptive insights, thanks
Is your dodger designed for your boat, or is it available for other similar sailboats? Thanks!
Hi. It was made for my boat. I actually made the metal frame and then the spray hood was made to fit that, by Jeckles in Norfolk, UK.
Wonderful!
Great video. I had a Corribee some years ago. I enjoyed your cruise which brought back sone wonderful memories. Thanks. Fair winds. Capt John.
Amazing. Thank you for sharing.
That was an interesting interview!