Colonel Mike Brooke’s Voyage around Britain

Background

In the Summer of 2008, between June and September, Mike Brooke undertook a voyage around the coast of Great Britain to raise money to pay for research into a rare eye condition which has unfortunately left his Godson, Theo, blind from birth.

This page brings together details of Mike’s trip in his Cape Cutter 19 “Sea Badger” around our coast with details of his passages, blogs and photographs which have been bought together for your enjoyment.

By clicking on the date an image of the passage will display in a new window. By clicking on the media the blog will display as an Adobe Acrobat .pdf in a new window.

Mike wrote a book “Fight for Sight on Theos Future- A voyage of Hope & Endeavour (ISBN 978-090353040-8) which he kindly personally signed for me at the Southampton Boat Show 2013. This was in recognition to the work I did in preparing the actual schedule of passage in the back of the book, taken from the passages shown below.

Please note that you should be able to make a single zoom into the maps for greater clarity.

Click on the date for passage details. All times are approximate and are GMT
Date Start Finish Start Finish Passage Media
05 July Bosham Hayling Island 9:45:00 11:30:00 1:45:00  
06 July Hayling Island In Port
07 July Hayling Island In Port Blog
08 July Hayling Island Yarmouth 12:30:00 20:34:00 8:04:00 Blog
09 July Yarmouth Poole Harbour 4:36:00 10:43:00 6:07:00
10 July Poole Harbour Weymouth 6:49:00 18:17:00 11:28:00
11 July Weymouth Brixham 5:30:00 18:40:00 13:10:00
12 July Brixham Dartmouth 15:10:00 18:00:00 2:50:00
13 July Dartmouth Salcombe 10:40:00 16:06:00 5:26:00 Blog
14 July Salcombe Plymouth 4:14:00 8:24:00 4:10:00
Plymouth Falmouth 11:50:00 20:20:00 8:30:00
15 July Falmouth In Port
16 July Falmouth Penzance 8:58:00 17:30:00 8:32:00
17 July Penzance St Ives 6:10:00 13:10:00 7:00:00
18 July St Ives Padstow 6:37:00 15:07:00 8:30:00
19 July Padstow In Port
20 July Padstow In Port
21 July Padstow Bude 2:46:00 8:00:00 5:14:00 Blog
22 July Bude Lundy 9:00:00 11:48:00 2:48:00 Blog
23 July Lundy Tenby 11:15:00 18:22:00 7:07:00
24 July Tenby Dale 12:30:00 18:50:00 6:20:00
25 July Dale Neyland 11:00:00 13:15:00 2:15:00
26 July Neyland In Port
27 July Neyland Off Skomer Island 2:10:00 7:13:00 5:03:00
Off Skomer Island Sulva 7:13:00 8:40:00 1:27:00
Sulva Off St Davids 15:10:00 18:22:00 3:12:00
28 July Off St Davids Fishguard 3:20:00 8:10:00 4:50:00
29 July Fishguard Aberaeron 1:52:00 8:15:00 6:23:00 Blog
30 July Aberaeron Pwllheli 11:00:00 20:50:00 9:50:00
31 July Pwllheli Nefyn 14:15:00 21:38:00 7:23:00
01 August Nefyn Holyhead 3:50:00 9:17:00 5:27:00 Blog
02 August Holyhead In Port Blog
03 August Holyhead Port St Mary IOM 7:15:00 16:40:00 9:25:00
04 August Port St Mary, IOM Douglas IOM 8:37:00 11:30:00 2:53:00
05 August Douglas IOM In Port
06 August Douglas IOM Ramsey IOM 14:15:00 17:40:00 3:25:00
07 August Ramsey IOM Portpatrick 13:47:00 22:00:00 8:13:00
08 August Portpatrick In Port
09 August Portpatrick In Port Blog
10 August Portpatrick Carnlough, NI 5:45:00 13:25:00 7:40:00
11 August Carnlough, NI Port Ellen 7:00:00 14:45:00 7:45:00
12 August Port Ellen Crinan 8:45:00 19:35:00 10:50:00
13 August Crinan Oban 10:15:00 16:18:00 6:03:00
14 August Oban Fort William 12:00:00 19:31:00 7:31:00
15 August Fort William Corpach 11:15:00 12:01:00 0:46:00
16 August Corpach In Port
17 August Corpach In Port
18 August Corpach Benavie 7:41:00 10:18:00 2:37:00
19 August Benavie In Port Blog
20 August Benavie In Port
21 August Benavie Augustus 9:22:00 17:30:00 8:08:00
22 August Augustus Inverness 10:55:00 17:00:00 6:05:00
23 August Inverness In Port
24 August Inverness In Port Blog
25 August Inverness In Port
26 August Inverness Lossiemouth 7:05:00 15:20:00 8:15:00
27 August Lossiemouth Gardenstown 8:15:00 14:10:00 5:55:00
28 August Gardenstown Peterhead 8:31:00 16:02:00 7:31:00
29 August Peterhead Stonehaven 8:36:00 15:30:00 6:54:00
30 August Stonehaven Tayport 7:37:00 15:30:00 7:53:00
31 August Tayport In Port
01 Sept
Tayport Anstruther 6:45:00 11:45:00 5:00:00 Blog
02 Sept
Anstruther Eyemouth 4:30:00 13:20:00 8:50:00
03 Sept
Eyemouth Holy Island 7:15:00 14:01:00 6:46:00
04 Sept
Holy Island North Shields 13:45:00 23:59:00 10:14:00
05 Sept
North Shields In Port
06 Sept
North Shields In Port
07 Sept
North Shields In Port
08 Sept
North Shields Hartlepool 15:22:00 20:14:00 4:52:00
09 Sept
Hartlepool Whitby 15:26:00 21:24:00 5:58:00
10 Sept
Whitby Scarborough 11:44:00 16:10:00 4:26:00 Blog
11 Sept
Scarborough Bridlington 12:21:00 17:26:00 5:05:00
12 Sept
Bridlington Grimsby 5:35:00 14:47:00 9:12:00
13 Sept
Grimsby In Port
14 Sept
Grimsby Wells-Next-The-Sea 5:34:00 19:26:00 13:52:00
15 Sept
Wells-Next-The-Sea In Port
16 Sept
Wells-Next-The-Sea Lowestoft 5:00:00 17:57:00 12:57:00 Blog
17 Sept
Lowestoft Orford (River Ore) 6:38:00 12:20:00 5:42:00
18 Sept
Orford (River Ore) Woodbridge (River Deben) 10:55:00 15:40:00 4:45:00 Blog
19 Sept
Woodbridge (River Deben) Harwich 11:00:00 15:20:00 4:20:00
20 Sept
Harwich Ramsgate 7:04:00 16:30:00 9:26:00 Blog
21 Sept
Ramsgate Rye 7:20:00 15:38:00 8:18:00
22 Sept
Rye Eastbourne 4:50:00 9:13:00 4:23:00
23 Sept
Eastbourne Brighton 6:52:00 11:20:00 4:28:00
24 Sept
Brighton Littlehampton 7:50:00 11:24:00 3:34:00
25 Sept
Littlehampton In Port
26 Sept
Littlehampton In Port
27 Sept
Littlehampton Hayling Island 09:15 15:00 5:45:00
28 Sept Hayling Island Bosham 08:55 10:00 1:05:00 Blog
29 September Finish
Bosham In Port Blog