Sailing Pickle round Great Britain: with family, friends and bees in my bonnet

A circumnavigation of Great Britain with one wife, five children, and twenty-two friends as crew.

In 2012, retired NHS doctor and university professor Charles Warlow recruited his nearest, dearest, and most adventuresome of friends to join him on his sailing boat Pickle for a voyage around Great Britain. Setting off anti-clockwise from Ardfern in Argyll, Scotland, the skipper and his ever-changing set of helpers completed the 2540-mile cruise in eight two-week legs. They stopped off at 85 pl...