Fulmar Concerto Sail Round Britain 2022 part 1 Chatham to the Humber

This is the first part of my singlehanded sail around Britain on my 32ft Westerly Fulmar Concerto built in 1980. Starting at Chatham, Kent and heading north up the East Coast to the Shetland Islands, before returning down the West Coast and visiting the Scottish islands, Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, Wales, possibly the Isles of Scilly before travelling along the South Coast and returning to Chatham at the end of September.
This part covers from Chatham to the River Humber. Hopefully I have captured a feel of the weather I experienced. For a detailed written description then please visit forums.ybw.com.... This was written at the end of the sailing day, so will fill in more information not included in the video. In the thread is a link to the next post to the next sailing day.
Most of this filming is done on my i-Phone SE, but a DJI Mini 2 drone has been aquired and does feature in the this video.
If you would like to see more of Concerto have a look at my earlier videos, one shows her at the Southampton Boat Show in September 2021 where she was the Westerly Owners Association boat at the show.
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Roger Clark

[@Sp3ktral22]

Great footage. Fantastic story. I'm subscribing!

[@FulmarConcerto]

There is plenty more to come. Do read the links to the yachting forum posts as there is more information about everything in the videos. Currently working on part 5 at the moment. Also thinking about a video of errors and bloomers that have been editted out.

[@TheMagicalArmchair]

Thanks for posting, good luck on your trip!

[@gailjones4454]

Brilliant. Love it xx

[@FulmarConcerto]

Glad you liked this first part Gail. You should enjoy the rest of the series.

[@mjcooke2sailingmostly]

Good to see a new Fulmar video. I don't have mine any more. They sail so well. Cut a slice off a foam backed pan scrubber, stuck over your microphone, it will deal with the wind noise. Have a great trip.

[@eddiecrawford]

Great 👍. Thanks for posting

[@jasonchamberlin1532]

Loved it. Thanks for posting

[@brianbrowne206]

Loving reading about this on ybw as well. Thanks!!!!

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

Excellent work. Concerto is looking beautiful just like a classic beauty should. Interesting to see the main sheet track on the rear transom & different winches set up from the fulmar we bought in 2007.

[@FulmarConcerto]

Thank you. You might enjoy seeing the process of renovation from when I first saw her to Jan 2020. wiki.westerly-owners.co.uk/images/3/3f/Concerto.pdf In 2021 Concerto was the Westerly Owners Association boat at the Southampton Boat Show. Whilst there I took some video of the boat for those who could not visit due to Covid. kzbin.info/www/bejne/epm5ZqWgZ9R0na8 The main sheet track at the aft end of the cockpit was the original position. Owners could specifiy either halfway along the cockpit or acrossthe front of the cockpit. On Concerto the track in the past had been moved to the middle of the cockpit and later returned aft. I moved the winches from the aft end of the coachroof as you could not spin an 8" handle, let alone a 10". For racing the windward winch was used to sheet the genoa, but as I sail singlehanded, mounting them on the cockpit coaming means they are easy to reach whilst on the helm. All the winches are uprated self tailing to make my life easier.

[@WavedancerWesterlyfulmar]

@@FulmarConcerto cool. Thanks looking forward to seeing that. The previous owner moved the track across centre of the cockpit for single handed sailing keeping everything in easy reach. He did an extensive refit after bringing her back from Greece. Our winches are on the coach roof either side of the companionway

[@FulmarConcerto]

If you join the ybw forums and are registered, then look up Concerto, you can access my About Me page where you can find all the links to items I have online. There is so much information you will find of interest.

[@timallen6025]

Boat sails very nicely doesn’t she? The drone looks very promising, I like the metal horse in the water at Wells!Here’s wishing you continued fine sailing north Roger and possibly some fine at-sea drone flying too

[@dreamtimesv]

Nice to have a non music sailing video, some are very intrusive, like these westerly fulmars, i am from antipodes we don’t have this brand down here, but would have one if they did. Best

[@FulmarConcerto]

Thank you for your kind comments. Hope you enjoy my other videos and subscribe so you are notified as the later parts of this trip are loaded.

[@cliffol4529]

👍

[@benjaminb957]

loving your trip Concerto (also follow you on YBW). Think your going to need a bit more click bait before you overload the internet !