
Welcome to Avy-J’s Website
After nearly two years we are almost ready to launch Avy-J, our Morgan Giles 30. So, what have we been ...

Sea Trials 1
Our first trip was up to Oban for a couple of days on the pontoons there sorting things out. Darren ...

Sea Trials 2
Ten days later we set off on what was intended to be a more extensive sea trial. We got as ...

Windlass Fitted
One of the pre-departure jobs was to finally fit the Lofrans Royal manual windlass we got at a bargain price ...

Good grief, are we actually going to go?
Check out the new stack pack in the header above! July 2020 and it's three years since we bought Avy-J ...

Left! (August 1st)
We parked up the car and walked down to the boatyard. At the shop we met Chris and Ruth, who ...

2nd August 2020 – Gigha to Glenarm
We dropped the mooring at Gigha just after twelve midday and meandered to the Mull with a mix of sailing, ...

3rd August 2020 – Glenarm to Ardglass
We slipped Glenarm at 07.05, only five minutes after the plan, and motorsailed South with the tide giving us a ...