SCRABSTER TO BLYTHE
Just to note some of the journey legs are a little out of sequence depending when the video was posted but we'll tidy that up later . The Jourmey Map shows you the legs as we round Britain in a Clockwise Direction. but we are on the way from Scrabster heading down the East Coast
So on we go leaving the north coast of Scotland behind ..we pass through the Inner sound at the Pentland of Firth this place can be dangerous so timing means everything along with weather. We got it on a perfect day but it was still a bubbling pot of badness so take care here. We also past John O Groats the most north place on the uk mainland. As we swing down on to the east coast winds were changing all over the place the vhf forecasts were giving thunder and lighting storms it was nail biting stuff. Darren seen a few massive flashes while on watch. During the night I got a tiny bit sea sick due to a funny old swell but I beat it. How do you combat seasickness? What I liked about this coast was how well the fishermen marked there pots a top job to be honest. There was lots of pots about so I set the seed of doubt in Darrens head just before he went to sleep...I was about to play an evil trick on him...but what was it? As the days went on we lost all wind and Newcastle was off so we headed to Blyth. There wasn’t much going on here the marina was sort of shut down no showers are toilets but hey the guys about here was spot on and friendly. We got low on diesel so we were asking about were to get fuel but it was a kamel hike away to far to carry even for us...but we had a very kind gentleman who drove Darren down to get fuel...so it worked out well...The marina you can access all times of the tide pretty straight forward. You can get all you need in the town to resupply there is a pretty nice beach here to. Anyway let’s jump aboard and get some time at sea...
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