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    Light Airs and Yachtsman's Gales: Robinetta, #3
    Robinetta, There and Back Again, the 2013 log: Robinetta, #2
    Robinetta: Her five year mission to seek out the places everyone else says are good: Robinetta, #1
    Ebook series8 titles

    Robinetta Series

    By Alison Cable and Julian Cable

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    About this series

    Robinetta set off on her travels again in 2021, having been laid up afloat over the COVID pandemic. This time the aim was to sail her north to her owners' new home in the Clyde. With rather more gear failures than ideal it took two sailing seasons for her to reach the Clyde from Tollesbury via a largely different set of harbours and anchorages to the ones she visited in 2014.

     

    Including the Cruising Association's Dugon Cup winning log of 2021

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAJ and Family
    Release dateFeb 24, 2016
    Light Airs and Yachtsman's Gales: Robinetta, #3
    Robinetta, There and Back Again, the 2013 log: Robinetta, #2
    Robinetta: Her five year mission to seek out the places everyone else says are good: Robinetta, #1

    Titles in the series (8)

    • 1

      Robinetta: Her five year mission to seek out the places everyone else says are good: Robinetta, #1
      Robinetta: Her five year mission to seek out the places everyone else says are good: Robinetta, #1

      Robinetta: Her five year mission to seek out the places everyone else says are good: Robinetta, #1

      Alison Cable
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      We bought our 22'6" Gaff cutter in 2007, and have been lavishing love, attention, and time on her ever since. When she was 75 years old, in 2012, we decided to collect together our various blog posts and edit them together to publish in book form. We sail Robinetta on the East Coast of England, in waters familiar to many people. There are tales of adventure, misadventure, and maintenance within, but we do our best to avoid high drama!  Robinetta is a pocket size boat, but we think she is just the right size for a couple who enjoy week long cruises. Cheap to berth, and pretty to look at; what's not to like? Well, she's made of wood for a start.....

      We bought our 22'6" Gaff cutter in 2007, and have been lavishing love, attention, and time on her ever since. When she was 75 years old, in 2012, we decided to collect together our various blog posts and edit them together to publish in book form. We sail Robinetta on the East Coast of England, in waters familiar to many people. There are tales of adventure, misadventure, and maintenance within, but we do our best to avoid high drama!  Robinetta is a pocket size boat, but we think she is just the right size for a couple who enjoy week long cruises. Cheap to berth, and pretty to look at; what's not to like? Well, she's made of wood for a start.....

    • 3

      Light Airs and Yachtsman's Gales: Robinetta, #3
      Light Airs and Yachtsman's Gales: Robinetta, #3

      Light Airs and Yachtsman's Gales: Robinetta, #3

      Alison Cable
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      We have owned our yacht Robinetta for 7 years, and never gone far from home, but in 2014 we decided it was time she finished going round Britain. I say finished, because after Robinetta was built at Birkenhead in 1937, she headed north, and in 1938 got to the Isle of Skye. From there she headed anticlockwise, making it to the East Coast of England in the late 1940s, where she stayed until May 2014. She is only 20''on the waterline, and we passage plan at 3 knots, so it was going to be a slow trip!

      We have owned our yacht Robinetta for 7 years, and never gone far from home, but in 2014 we decided it was time she finished going round Britain. I say finished, because after Robinetta was built at Birkenhead in 1937, she headed north, and in 1938 got to the Isle of Skye. From there she headed anticlockwise, making it to the East Coast of England in the late 1940s, where she stayed until May 2014. She is only 20''on the waterline, and we passage plan at 3 knots, so it was going to be a slow trip!

    • 2

      Robinetta, There and Back Again, the 2013 log: Robinetta, #2
      Robinetta, There and Back Again, the 2013 log: Robinetta, #2

      Robinetta, There and Back Again, the 2013 log: Robinetta, #2

      Alison Cable
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      This is the story of a year in the life of a small old wooden gaff rigged sailing yacht. It contains details of the maintance needed to keep a 76 year old boat going, as well as what can do wrong over the course of a season, with both boat and crew. We have owned Robinetta since 2007, and this is the year when things went wrong, as we went on our most ambitious cruise to date, from the river Blackwater in Essex, round to Cowes, and back.

      This is the story of a year in the life of a small old wooden gaff rigged sailing yacht. It contains details of the maintance needed to keep a 76 year old boat going, as well as what can do wrong over the course of a season, with both boat and crew. We have owned Robinetta since 2007, and this is the year when things went wrong, as we went on our most ambitious cruise to date, from the river Blackwater in Essex, round to Cowes, and back.

    • 4

      Gales every Weekend: Robinetta, #4
      Gales every Weekend: Robinetta, #4

      Gales every Weekend: Robinetta, #4

      Alison Cable
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      After relaunching Robinetta in April we took her north out of the Crinan canal, hoping to reach the Outer Hebrides. With gales every weekend, and locals agreeing that it was the worst summer they could remember, we still managed to get in some great sailing!

      After relaunching Robinetta in April we took her north out of the Crinan canal, hoping to reach the Outer Hebrides. With gales every weekend, and locals agreeing that it was the worst summer they could remember, we still managed to get in some great sailing!

    • 5

      Day Sailing Round Ireland: Robinetta, #5
      Day Sailing Round Ireland: Robinetta, #5

      Day Sailing Round Ireland: Robinetta, #5

      Julian Cable
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      5/5 - 1 rating

      Circumnavigating Ireland is hardly an unusual thing. Yachts do it every year, many of them in the Biannual Volvo Round Ireland race. In 2016 63 yachts took part in this, travelling 704 nm non-stop. The fastest (a multi-hull) got round in under 39 hours with the first monohull managing it in just over 50 hours. Rough weather meant that 15 boats retired, but all finishers were over the line inside 6 days. These are all big boats, and I am sure their crews had a good time, but racing round is not something we would do in our own yacht. For a start Robinetta is small, just under 7m on deck, and slow. She is also old, having been built in 1937. We like to take care of her, which means not putting her, or ourselves at risk. When we set off from Largs in April 2016 with the idea of cruising round Ireland we gave ourselves nine weeks to do it. Due to work the nine weeks were split up through the spring and summer, which ended up giving us much better weather for the trip than we dreamed of! Day Sailing Round Ireland is the perfect discription of what happened during those nine weeks. This is the 5th in the series recording our sailing adventures in Robinetta, but is a stand alone book of a major trip.

      Circumnavigating Ireland is hardly an unusual thing. Yachts do it every year, many of them in the Biannual Volvo Round Ireland race. In 2016 63 yachts took part in this, travelling 704 nm non-stop. The fastest (a multi-hull) got round in under 39 hours with the first monohull managing it in just over 50 hours. Rough weather meant that 15 boats retired, but all finishers were over the line inside 6 days. These are all big boats, and I am sure their crews had a good time, but racing round is not something we would do in our own yacht. For a start Robinetta is small, just under 7m on deck, and slow. She is also old, having been built in 1937. We like to take care of her, which means not putting her, or ourselves at risk. When we set off from Largs in April 2016 with the idea of cruising round Ireland we gave ourselves nine weeks to do it. Due to work the nine weeks were split up through the spring and summer, which ended up giving us much better weather for the trip than we dreamed of! Day Sailing Round Ireland is the perfect discription of what happened during those nine weeks. This is the 5th in the series recording our sailing adventures in Robinetta, but is a stand alone book of a major trip.

    • 6

      A Strait, some Sounds, and a Sea: Robinetta, #6
      A Strait, some Sounds, and a Sea: Robinetta, #6

      A Strait, some Sounds, and a Sea: Robinetta, #6

      Alison Cable
      5/5 - 1 rating
      5/5 - 1 rating

      In 2017 We took our gaff cutter Robinetta from Holyhead on Anglesey up to Scotland, (via Liverpool), then down the Welsh side of the Irish Sea to Bristol. This book is an account of that journey, with all its attendant joys and trials, including a radio that would not stay on station, an engine that filled the bilges with oil, and some interesting weather. What with traversing the Menai Strait, more Sounds than we can remember (including some of a musical nature) and traveling widely in the Irish Sea we had a varied and fun sailing season.

      In 2017 We took our gaff cutter Robinetta from Holyhead on Anglesey up to Scotland, (via Liverpool), then down the Welsh side of the Irish Sea to Bristol. This book is an account of that journey, with all its attendant joys and trials, including a radio that would not stay on station, an engine that filled the bilges with oil, and some interesting weather. What with traversing the Menai Strait, more Sounds than we can remember (including some of a musical nature) and traveling widely in the Irish Sea we had a varied and fun sailing season.

    • 7

      Bristol to the Blackwater: Robinetta, #7
      Bristol to the Blackwater: Robinetta, #7

      Bristol to the Blackwater: Robinetta, #7

      Alison Cable
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      After a winter in Bristol Julian and Alison Cable set out to bring their elderly gaff cutter Robinetta back to the East Coast of England after five sailing seasons going round the British Isles. There were still places to explore on the way, including the Brittany coastline. That was so long as they could get their 7m long yacht across the English Channel. Inspired by the song "Spanish Ladies" they decided to head from Scilly to Ushant, then spend as much time as possible exploring the Brittany coastline and attending the Temp Fête at Douarnenez before heading back home to the river Blackwater in Essex. This is the story of how they accomplished their mission in the summer of 2018, a summer when the weather was not always as forecast!  

      After a winter in Bristol Julian and Alison Cable set out to bring their elderly gaff cutter Robinetta back to the East Coast of England after five sailing seasons going round the British Isles. There were still places to explore on the way, including the Brittany coastline. That was so long as they could get their 7m long yacht across the English Channel. Inspired by the song "Spanish Ladies" they decided to head from Scilly to Ushant, then spend as much time as possible exploring the Brittany coastline and attending the Temp Fête at Douarnenez before heading back home to the river Blackwater in Essex. This is the story of how they accomplished their mission in the summer of 2018, a summer when the weather was not always as forecast!  

    • 8

      Round Cape Wrath: Robinetta, #8
      Round Cape Wrath: Robinetta, #8

      Round Cape Wrath: Robinetta, #8

      Alison Cable
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      Robinetta set off on her travels again in 2021, having been laid up afloat over the COVID pandemic. This time the aim was to sail her north to her owners' new home in the Clyde. With rather more gear failures than ideal it took two sailing seasons for her to reach the Clyde from Tollesbury via a largely different set of harbours and anchorages to the ones she visited in 2014.   Including the Cruising Association's Dugon Cup winning log of 2021

      Robinetta set off on her travels again in 2021, having been laid up afloat over the COVID pandemic. This time the aim was to sail her north to her owners' new home in the Clyde. With rather more gear failures than ideal it took two sailing seasons for her to reach the Clyde from Tollesbury via a largely different set of harbours and anchorages to the ones she visited in 2014.   Including the Cruising Association's Dugon Cup winning log of 2021

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