03 Mwera round Britain, a week in Orkney

[@ClausPoerschke]

What a nice adventure on a small boat. Thank you for sharing. Exited to see more.

[@donlamb537]

This is great! loving the easy going, un-pretentious vibe of your channel and picking up some fittout clues as I'm restoring a 40 year old Oliver Lee designed Hunter 19 in Western Australia.

[@fibber2u]

I do agree "un-pretentious" just a quiet bloke telling a story and letting you learn if you want too.

[@nikkigrant7497]

Aww man! Whit a great adventure!

[@MrSimonGM]

Such a lovely moment when the engine turns off... 😊

[@Wildcatsailing]

Love the vlogg, given me a little more confidence about heading over toward the Orkneys in a small boat. I used to watch the tides from shore rip through there. I was debating cut that out and down the Caledonian. ⛵️💨

[@fendykefabs]

Nicely done. What an adventure you have had and, of course, very well planned.

[@MartinErlandson]

Nice vlog indeed! In 2013 I circumnavigation of Scotland, Inverness-Corpach and then “all” famous places in the north west coast of Scotland. Due to lack of time we could not visit Orkney on the way back to Scandinavia. Passing Pentland was a breeze but in very thick fog :-( We took the inner sound but could not even see Stroma due to fog. Now your video had turn on my longing for Orkney again :-) Thanks for sharing!

[@sailingcorribeemwera]

Orkney, and Shetland too!

[@MartinErlandson]

​@@sailingcorribeemwera He-he! Yes, please! Tried that in 2004, singlehanded - bought paper charts and "all" sailing directions but engine failure half way put me back to Skagerack. Not braver with age, but my now better boat/engine gives no excuses :-) Oh dear! You have lots of videos I see now :-) Have to catch up! Thanks again.

[@Moontown1]

Nice to watch a proper round Britain adventure

[@sailingcorribeemwera]

Thanks, as in going round the top?!

[@samsails9820]

Nice boat, great vlog 👌

[@kapkone]

Wow you are brave. The Pentland firth is no joke

[@sailingcorribeemwera]

You're right of course, it's all in the timing!

[@rezablade1375]

Mwera is the name for the south wind on Lake Malawi

[@sailingcorribeemwera]

Correct. Have you been there yourself?

[@roanjovitaro9013]

😊god lille video tak for inspirationen her fra Danmark , og jeg som syntes min 27 fods båd er lidt lille 😅 nu syntes jeg jeg har en stor båd

[@sailingcorribeemwera]

enjoy your superyacht!!

[@danielprince7228]

Really enjoying this. Curios to know how much petrol you carry for your outboard, what size is it and how much fuel it uses? (I have a 23 ft hunter horizon which I reckon uses up to 2 litres an hour for a 6 hp outboard.

[@sailingcorribeemwera]

Hi, it's 6hp 4 stroke, on this trip I used just under 1l/hour, some of that was motorsailing which should decrease the consumption. I usually have the throttle on 'medium' , as soon as you try to go flat out the consumption goes up a lot. I'd be surprised at 2l/hr but it is a bigger boat

[@danielprince7228]

@@sailingcorribeemwera thanks. That's very helpful. I reckon 2 litres per hr is at full throttle, but easing off is much more eco and the speed isn't much less. I've been trying to gauge how much I should carry on longer trips.

[@sailingcorribeemwera]

@@danielprince7228 normally i have the 12l external tank for the outboard plus a 20 litre can in the locker, so that should do about 30 hours or 120 miles. For this trip, bearing in mind that particularly on the west coast of Scotland petrol may be harder to find, i took another 20l can, but o didn't really need it.

[@tonybarnes3858]

Is your dodger designed for your boat, or is it available for other similar sailboats? Thanks!

[@sailingcorribeemwera]

Hi. It was made for my boat. I actually made the metal frame and then the spray hood was made to fit that, by Jeckles in Norfolk, UK.

[@mariajosemorenoguerrero8638]

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