First sail of 2020
A New Year’s Day sea trial for Puffin in stunning Cardigan bay...
Pre-Race
Steering back on course
We finally got Puffin's steering back together this weekend....
A New Red Ensign for Puffin
Last week we received our official Small Ships Register number or SSR for Puffin, completing the process of moving her registration from the USA to the UK....
Hydrovanes and other stuff
Apologies for lack of updates, "insert usual excuses here", but stuff has been progressing onboard Puffin in sunny Pwllheli....
Watch the cloth moth
So we’ve had a few great comments and questions from Jeffro and others about Puffin’s sails and how amazing they were looking after their 30,000-mile test run....
Dismasted, but not in a bad way…
Great job this week, Jade from C9 Boat Services unstepped Puffin’s mast for a rig inspection....
Puffin gets hauled out and her bottom scrubbed
Looking amazing given over a year in the water and 30,000+ miles covered....
Puffin arrives in her new home of Pwllheli
Puffin arrived in her new home of Pwllheli this week with some help from a great crew of Peter Ratcliffe and first-time sailor Steve Reading....
Puffin joins the HJ Sailing Team..
It was April 21st 2019, at the Golden Globe Race prize giving that I shook hands on with Istvan Kopar and agreed to buy yacht Puffin...