Snark's Baltic Voyage 2023
Contact us now to make your no obligation reservation for Snark’s Baltic Adventure 2023. See details below It already seems an age since...
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- Sep 13
- 6 min
The wind gods finally win...
This morning we disembarked our last passengers in Newlyn (Penzance) two days short of our destination Plymouth. The wind gods had...
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- Sep 11
- 3 min
Voyage around the land of my fathers
Our passengers arrived together, bang on time having met on the bus from Bangor, the nearest station. Only two this time after another...
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- Aug 31
- 4 min
Irish Sea
Belfast is a strange place. The city centre feels safe and welcoming unlike the last time I visited, however one of our last guests...
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- Aug 18
- 9 min
Loads of lochs, locks and loughs.
Our passengers arrived in far-flung Inverness wired after stressful journeys by train, plane, car and donkey. Well, no not the donkey...
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- Jul 29
- 4 min
Over the top ....
Well not quite, we aren’t braving the Pentland Firth and Cape Wrath but taking the chicken route through the Cali. However for a Thames...
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- Jul 19
- 5 min
into the North
Whitby is a delightful town, full of history and fish and chips. Very little of this fish is landed locally anymore and you have to...
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- Jul 7
- 5 min
Whoever said the east coast was boring....
I am writing this sitting in Whitby having completed leg 4 which should have been a simple delivery trip from Lowestoft without...
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- Jul 2
- 7 min
Leg 3 to Essex and beyond....
Our next guest Barbara arrived at Limehouse basin bang on 4 o'clock having travelled all the way from Hackney by bus (about 5 miles for...
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- Jun 21
- 6 min
and on to London
Our lay days on Eastbourne were spent fitting our new Rain Man water maker and doing running repairs to the mizzen, all complete and...
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- Jun 21
- 4 min
and we are off...leg 1 Plymouth to Eastbourne
So, we are finally on our way after months of planning, building, fixing, marketing, worrying, more planning, endless e-mails to harbours...
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- May 14
- 3 min
Navigating troubled waters and reaching calmer seas....
When I posted that live in troubled times a few of weeks ago little did I know I would be adding add war in Europe, the renewed fear of...
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- Apr 24
- 2 min
Funding, Awards and Memberships
It always feels good to receive recognition for what we are doing on Snark. Over the past few months a number of organisations have...
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- Apr 11
- 1 min
Highlands and islands adventure
On 31 July we leave Inverness for a 10 day voyage to Belfast. The first four days will be spent cruising through the Great Glen through...
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- Apr 2
- 2 min
Barging around Kent
Our summer will be spent sailing Snark around the British coast. Each of the ten legs has its own particular character and focus. 'White...
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- Mar 20
- 1 min
All systems go
A couple of guests have contacted us to check that the Round Britain Voyage is still on. We are happy to confirm that despite the...
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- Mar 17
- 1 min
Business Declares
We are excited to announce that Snark Ltd has joined Business Declares, the diverse group of businesses that have committing to...
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- Mar 6
- 1 min
Cobles (with one b)
The most iconic vessel still sailing the north east coast of England is undisputedly the coble. These evolved from the Vikings longships...
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- Feb 24
- 2 min
Storms and teacups
The weather is finally settling down after the terrible triplets Dudley, Eunice and Franklin have been battering us for the last week. At...
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- Feb 17
- 2 min
Whitby connections
Weather gods willing, Snark will arrive in Whitby on 6 July 2022 at the end of the 4th leg of our Round Britain Jubilee Cruise. We will...
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- Feb 9
- 2 min
I must go down to the sea again,
We live in troubled times; the climate crisis, mass extinctions, political instability, eroded freedoms, traumatic life events, are all...
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- Feb 4
- 3 min
Drifters, wherries and smacks; keels, sloops and the old Billy Boy.
On our cruise around the British coast we have now left the Thames and are heading up the east coast of England through the muddy waters...
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- Jan 29
- 4 min
Stumpies, Boomies and Mulies, Bawleys, Dobles and Smacks.
If you were to sail down the Thames on the Clacton-on-Sea paddle steamer in 1900 you would be welcomed by a diverse and picturesque...
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- Jan 26
- 2 min
Just because you can doesn't mean you should....
Governments around the world are starting to lift travel restrictions along with testing and quarantine requirements. This is being...
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