{"id":2161,"date":"2016-05-04T08:48:11","date_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/?p=2161"},"modified":"2016-05-04T08:55:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-04T08:55:54","slug":"and-theyre-off-first-class-sailing-east-coast-sail-round-britain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/and-theyre-off-first-class-sailing-east-coast-sail-round-britain\/","title":{"rendered":"And They\u2019re off\u2026. First Class Sailing East Coast Sail Round Britain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Moonshadow and Kingfisher set off from Fambridge Yacht Haven on the River Crouch to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on Leg 1 of their Sail Round Britain Adventure. \u00a0They left the busy shipping port of Felixstowe in glorious East coast sunshine.\u00a0 The blue skies and settled winds provided a sedate sail\u00a0up\u00a0to Lowestoft. \u00a0Once clear of the shipping channel, navigation was fairly straightforward \u2026 although they had to take avoiding action to negotiate poorly marked drift nets.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YihBPa_dQzU\" width=\"854\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Trip will see the boats stop at around 30 ports, pass through the Caledonian Canal and cover over 1500 miles.<\/p>\n<p>Last night both boats were nicely tied up at the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club. Thanks to the RNSYC for waiving their mooring fees. That&#8217;s another \u00a360 in the Macmillan pot! The sailing yesterday went from gloriously exhilarating to frustratingly slow with winds becoming light and variable. Today they set off for the 30 hour journey to Whitby. The crews, who are all getting along well, may have been tested last night as Paul cooked a curry!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2169\" style=\"width: 880px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2169\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2169\" src=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Moonshadow-and-Kingfisher-alongside-at-RNSYC-870-x-489.jpg\" alt=\"Both boats alongside at the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club\" width=\"870\" height=\"489\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Moonshadow-and-Kingfisher-alongside-at-RNSYC-870-x-489.jpg 870w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Moonshadow-and-Kingfisher-alongside-at-RNSYC-870-x-489-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Moonshadow-and-Kingfisher-alongside-at-RNSYC-870-x-489-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 870px) 100vw, 870px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-2169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Both boats alongside at the Royal Norfolk and Suffolk Yacht Club<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The next leg of 150 miles to Whitby seems somewhat daunting to some of them as the hour of departure approaches. \u00a0How will they all fare doing three hour watches through the night?<\/p>\n<p>The trip is split into 7 legs, each between 5 and 7 days long.\u00a0 There is still space on some of them. Have a look <a href=\"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/Sail-Round-Britain.html\">here<\/a> for more detail and\/or contact the First Class Sailing East Coast office on <a href=\"mailto:eastcoast@firstclasssailing.com\">eastcoast@firstclasssailing.com<\/a> or 01621 928084<\/p>\n<p>In addition to providing the opportunity for lots of people to join the boat and sail either legs or the whole voyage the boats will be raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support.\u00a0 There will be BBQ\u2019s and fund raising activities at many of the marinas the boats stop at.<\/p>\n<p>The boats are aiming to raise \u00a35000.\u00a0 So far they are on \u00a31860.\u00a0 If you would like to learn more about why we are doing the trip or would like to make a donation visit\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/First-Class-Sailing-East-Coast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.justgiving.com\/First-Class-Sailing-East-Coast<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, Moonshadow and Kingfisher set off from Fambridge Yacht Haven on the River Crouch to Newcastle-Upon-Tyne on Leg 1 of their Sail Round Britain Adventure. \u00a0They left the busy shipping port of Felixstowe in glorious East coast sunshine.\u00a0 The blue skies and settled winds provided a sedate sail\u00a0up\u00a0to Lowestoft. \u00a0Once clear of the shipping [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[197],"tags":[201,199,200,198],"class_list":["post-2161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sail-round-britain","tag-caledonian-canal","tag-macmillan-cancer-support","tag-north-sea-sailing","tag-sail-round-britain"],"views":3836,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2170,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions\/2170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.firstclasssailing.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}