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

by Charles Warlow

Overview

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 places around the coastline - some stunningly beautiful, others less attractive, some historic, others modern, some urban, others wild, but every one interesting in its own way.

Interwoven with reflections on his upbringing and medical training, and on his distinguished career in medicine and academia, Warlow offers his thoughts on cruising and life on land from his perspective of being at sea. From engine failure off Bardsey Sound to a surprising sunfish in a Scottish loch, and from a crew member who suddenly couldn't swallow off Dartmouth to a record number of family vomits off the west coast of Orkney, this is a captivating account of a circumnavigation of the island of Great Britain.

With his keen interest in the geography, history, and character of the British coastline, and acknowledging previous accounts of circumnavigations, Sailing Pickle round Great Britain is as much an insight into the background and beliefs of the skipper as it is the story of his cruise.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781739687441
Publisher:	Charles wWarlo
Publication date:	12/20/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	408
File size:	10 MB

About the Author

Charles Warlow lives in Edinburgh where he was professor of medical neurology until he retired in 2008. His main research interest was in stroke, with minor excursions into motor neurone disease and functional neurological disorders. He was taught to sail by his father during the family's annual one-week holiday on the Norfolk Broads. He has sailed off the west coast of Scotland for nearly fifty years, first chartering, then co-owning a Contessa 32, and now in his own Rustler 36. He is a member of the Royal Cruising Club, the Clyde Cruising Club, and the Association of Yachting Historians. He has contributed to around five hundred scientific papers and review articles, and has authored or co-authored nine medical books. This is his first book about sailing.

Table of Contents

Foreword and acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Planning plan A

Chapter 2: Approaching plan A - from licensed doctor to unlicensed sailor

Chapter 3: Leaving behind the world of work

Chapter 4: From Ardfern to Maryport in Cumbria, via Northern Ireland

Chapter 5: From Maryport to Milford Haven, via the Isle of Man and Ireland

Chapter 6: From Milford Haven to Poole

Chapter 7: From Poole to Harwich

Chapter 8: From Harwich to Edinburgh

Chapter 9: From Edinburgh to Orkney

Chapter 10: Round Shetland and back to Orkney

Chapter 11: The final leg, to Dunstaffnage (and Ardfern)

Chapter 12: Epilogue

Glossary

References