Grand Tour Day 41: Hafen Pwllheli

Time to clean and prepare for visitors at Hafen Pwllheli

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Grand Tour Day 40: Neyland Marina to Hafen Pwllheli

112-mile passage from Neyland Marina on Milford Haven to Hafen Pwllheli in North Wales

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Grand Tour day 39: Swansea to Neyland Marina, Milford Haven

An accident with Missing Link’s draws is offset by a chance encounter with dolphins as we start to make progress again.

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Grand Tour day 37: Swansea

Back on board Missing Link but now off schedule, we make the best of yet more wind and rain by visiting Swansea Maritime & Industrial Museum.

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Grand Tour day 29: Penarth to Swansea

Behind the scenes at Penarth’s lifeboat station and onwards to Swansea.

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Grand Tour day 28: Penarth

A day off in Penarth provides the opportunity to check progress on Cardiff Bay’s ¬£200m barrier and the implications of its completion.

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Grand Tour day 27: Bristol to Penarth

A varied day in which we discover Amsterdam in the West Country, find out what makes a Newport Diver tick and enter Penarth the easy way.

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Grand Tour day 26: Gloucester to Bristol Floating Dock

After days of gentle river cruising, Missing Link picks up her skirts and takes line honours, charging down the Severn Estuary from Sharpness to Bristol in one tide.

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Grand Tour day 25: Upton-upon-Severn to Gloucester

Retracing our steps, we discover what links an East Ender with the last commercial cargo carrying activity on the Severn and then ask Gloucester Yacht Club to shoulder a heavy load.

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Grand Tour day 24: Upton-upon-Severn

The day when we met the nautically minded firemen of Upton and managed to see the funny side of the omnipresent rain.

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