Maunie of Ardwall

By Graham and Dianne aboard 'Maunie of Ardwall'

Monday, 30 June 2025

BACK TO DARTMOUTH

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  We're safely back in our home port after a brilliant couple of weeks aboard. In contrast to the light winds of the first part of the t...
Tuesday, 24 June 2025

Dodging the Scilly Rocks - or Not

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The Isles of Scilly have claimed many ships over the centuries - the most famous disaster was in 1707 when four Royal Navy warships, command...
Monday, 23 June 2025

New Zealand calling

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One of the unexpected benefits of our remote anchorage in Great Porth on Bryher was that there was absolutely no mobile signal to be had, wi...

Exploring Bryher

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  Bryher is the most westerly populated island and is beautiful. The extended spell of warm, windless conditions allowed us time to explore ...
Thursday, 19 June 2025

Easterly winds and avoiding Stinking Porth

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The wind has gone round to the east, so we’ve taken advantage of it to move to a very rocky, shallow anchorage called Great Porth on the wes...
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Sailing at Last!

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This has been a slow start to the season, sailing wise, so the Maunie blog has been rather dormant up until now. However, Graham has been ac...
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Friday, 28 February 2025

First sail of 2025 - Sunshine at Last

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We've been going down to Maunie regularly over the winter, but mostly to check that she's OK after a succession of gales, named stor...
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Graham and Dianne
Maunie is our Vancouver 38 Pilot, launched in 1997 and bought as a restoration project in 2009. The main trip of 2010 was to Ireland and a year later we were across to Brittany and the Channel Islands. 2012 was the start of the Big Trip - leaving Dartmouth in August, we left the Canaries for St Lucia in November. After the 2994 mile crossing, we explored the Caribbean and moved to Panama to transit the Panama Canal into the Pacific; we arrived in New Zealand in October and spent 6 months exploring, by boat and by car, before heading back into the Tropics. 2014 saw us enjoying cruising in Tonga and Fiji and we returned to New Zealand for the summer (plus a flight home to see family and friends in February). We loved Fiji so much that we returned in 2015 to revisit some favourite places. After a third summer in NZ we explored Vanuatu in 2016 before heading to Australia, sailing south from Bundaberg to Tasmania. In April 2017 we left Maunie to fly back to England for 6 months before returning to Australia for more sunshine. In May 2018 we shipped Maunie back to England to return to work but we're still sailing from our Dartmouth home port.
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