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Issue 162
2019 – The Season Slips Astern
Twenty-nineteen has been a busy year for me aboard the Amelie Rose. Our 11th season saw us sail over 1,800nm, from Scilly to Brittany, the Channel Islands to the Solent. Not counting the hundreds of kids who sailed aboard with the Set Sail Trust, over 90 guest crews have joined us on our adventures this year. We’ve met old friends and made new ones everywhere we’ve been and through it all Amelie Rose has been amazing. She is a true pleasure to sail, always looking out for her crew, and always giving her best. As we close on the end of this eventful year, I thought that I’d share some of my most treasured memories.
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Simply Our Ten Favourite Isles of Scilly Anchorages
As mentioned elsewhere, the Isles of Scilly hold an enduring fascination for us and one of the highpoints of 2018 was surely that we got to spend a whole fortnight buzzing about them on our Clean Seas Odyssey. Over the years we’ve experienced Scilly in all kinds of weather, with the wind coming from most points of the compass and this, plus help from our friends and our trusty Pilot Book, have given us quite a repertoire of anchorages and havens to hole up in. In no particular order here’s ten of our favourites.
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Ten Years Abaft the Mast
Twenty nineteen is going to be a big year for Amelie Rose. On April 24th it will be exactly 10 years to the day since her keel touched the water for the very first time. Ten years of adventures, ten years of making new friends and meeting them again and again, ten years in which the best part of 20,000 miles have passed under her keel.
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In Praise of Pellew
It’s over 12 years since I first met Luke Powell on the deck of his boat Agnes. Since that fateful day he has built me the Amelie Rose and still we’ve become good friends. All that time he has harboured an ambition to build a big boat, a boat that would show off the pinnacle of what Pilot Cutters were capable of being. The Pellew is that boat and it turns out that she’s more than just a behemoth.
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Sailing to #SaveOurSeas – A Clean Seas Odyssey Review
What a year. It started with one massively tall order; “to make a difference to the problem of plastic pollution entering our seas”, and nothing but the boat and some vague ideas to work with. So how did it end? Were we successful? Read on to find out more!
read more
Topsail Adventures Launches A Clean Seas Odyssey
If you are plugged into our Social Media feeds then you will already know that we’ve decided to put the business on hold this year in order to run a project doing something about the plastic pollution that is choking our coasts and seas. To find out why we’re doing this, to discover how you can come sailing with us and what else you can do to help read on.
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Phone: +44 (0)800 773 4264
Email: ahoy@topsail-adventures.co.uk
Post: Amelie Rose, Harbour Office, Bucklers Hard Yacht Harbour, Beaulieu, Hampshire, UK. SO42 7XB.
Registered Company Number: 6000046
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the
Topsail Tattler
No snoozing, just newsing
Issue 162
2019 – The Season Slips Astern
Twenty-nineteen has been a busy year for me aboard the Amelie Rose. Our 11th season saw us sail over 1,800nm, from Scilly to Brittany, the Channel Islands to the Solent. Not counting the hundreds of kids who sailed aboard with the Set Sail Trust, over 90 guest crews have joined us on our adventures this year. We’ve met old friends and made new ones everywhere we’ve been and through it all Amelie Rose has been amazing. She is a true pleasure to sail, always looking out for her crew, and always giving her best. As we close on the end of this eventful year, I thought that I’d share some of my most treasured memories.
read more
Simply Our Ten Favourite Isles of Scilly Anchorages
As mentioned elsewhere, the Isles of Scilly hold an enduring fascination for us and one of the highpoints of 2018 was surely that we got to spend a whole fortnight buzzing about them on our Clean Seas Odyssey. Over the years we’ve experienced Scilly in all kinds of weather, with the wind coming from most points of the compass and this, plus help from our friends and our trusty Pilot Book, have given us quite a repertoire of anchorages and havens to hole up in. In no particular order here’s ten of our favourites.
read more
Ten Years Abaft the Mast
Twenty nineteen is going to be a big year for Amelie Rose. On April 24th it will be exactly 10 years to the day since her keel touched the water for the very first time. Ten years of adventures, ten years of making new friends and meeting them again and again, ten years in which the best part of 20,000 miles have passed under her keel.
read more
In Praise of Pellew
It’s over 12 years since I first met Luke Powell on the deck of his boat Agnes. Since that fateful day he has built me the Amelie Rose and still we’ve become good friends. All that time he has harboured an ambition to build a big boat, a boat that would show off the pinnacle of what Pilot Cutters were capable of being. The Pellew is that boat and it turns out that she’s more than just a behemoth.
read more
Sailing to #SaveOurSeas – A Clean Seas Odyssey Review
What a year. It started with one massively tall order; “to make a difference to the problem of plastic pollution entering our seas”, and nothing but the boat and some vague ideas to work with. So how did it end? Were we successful? Read on to find out more!
read more
Topsail Adventures Launches A Clean Seas Odyssey
If you are plugged into our Social Media feeds then you will already know that we’ve decided to put the business on hold this year in order to run a project doing something about the plastic pollution that is choking our coasts and seas. To find out why we’re doing this, to discover how you can come sailing with us and what else you can do to help read on.
read moreLatest Stories
Sections
Tag Cloud
Archives
Let's stay in touch...
Follow us on Social Media
Topsail Adventures Ltd
Phone: +44 (0)800 773 4264
Email: ahoy@topsail-adventures.co.uk
Post: Amelie Rose, Harbour Office, Bucklers Hard Yacht Harbour, Beaulieu, Hampshire, UK. SO42 7XB.
Registered Company Number: 6000046
VAT Registration No. 898-7989-03
Site design by Topsail Adventures Ltd. © 2021 Topsail Adventures Ltd.