Naughty-Cal's Big Adventure 2014

I know it is really very early to start looking forward to 2014 but we have just found out that next year we will be having an enforced summer holiday due to the garage where Liam works having a new roof, shutting the place for at least two weeks. Helpfully they have agreed to do this during July of next year. With this in mind we can start to plan for Naughty-Cal’s next big adventure.

We are doing the Norfolk Broads again next month for a couple of weeks so really want to do something different for next year. As we seem to have a bit of a habit of turning right and heading down the coast we have decided that for next year we will be heading north into waters we have yet to explore.

This trip will obviously be very much weather and sea state dependant but the plan so far is along the lines of:

• ·         Grimsby
• ·         Whitby
• ·         Newcastle
• ·         Amble
• ·         Eyemouth
• ·         Amble
• ·         Hartlepool
• ·         Scarborough
• ·         Hull

Now we are not stupid and we know that the chances of getting two weeks of perfect boating weather during British summer time is fairly slim so we will be flexible with how far we manage to cruise and how long we stay at each harbour or port. We are also well aware that should the weather turn we may well be leaving Naughty-Cal somewhere and getting the train home before weekending her back to her own berth in Lincoln over a number of weeks.

We have tried to keep the distances between ports fairly sensible with the longest legs being the ones closest to home, Burton Waters to Grimsby at around 100 miles and Grimsby to Whitby and Scarborough to Hull both at around 75 miles, all well within our safe cruising range. The remaining legs vary in distance between 30 and 55 miles.

If we do manage to pull this one off it will be a round trip in excess of 600 miles and will (just) cross the border into Scotland which won’t be bad for a little boat!