Maunie of Ardwall

Maunie is a cutter-rigged Vancouver 38 Pilot sailed by Graham and Dianne Keating from Dartmouth, England. We left the UK in September 2012 and after spending our third summer in New Zealand we spent the 2016 season in Vanuatu and 2017 in Australia, heading south for Sydney and then Tasmania. In 2018 we took the tough decision to ship Maunie back to the UK to resume working careers but we'll continue to sail her from her mooring in Dartmouth. Length: 11.6m Beam: 3.7m Displacement: 10,150kg Sail number: 6 MMSI Number: 235072013 AIS: Yes (transmit and receive)

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Posted: Thu, 6 Feb 2020 - 17:11

We're taking advantage of a couple of days' settled weather before Storm Ciara (with gusts of up to 75 knots) arrives on Saturday. We took the opportunity to sail round to Salcombe from Dartmouth and

Posted: Sat, 25 May 2019 - 13:00

Back on the mooring after an excellent 3 week cruise - we covered 782nm and discovered some excellent new anchorages as well as re-visiting old haunts. This will be our last proper sail for a while

Posted: Sat, 25 May 2019 - 08:00

Departing the Yealm after an OK passage from Falmouth yesterday (3 hours of good spinnaker, 3 hours motoring).
Heading back to Dartmouth at the end of a very good cruise.

Posted: Thu, 23 May 2019 - 08:00

Back in St Mawes after a 59nm motor on a glassy sea from Scilly yesterday. Anchored alongside Quayhog, a sister ship to Maunie, so owners Duncan and Elisabeth joined us for supper last night. We'll

Posted: Sun, 19 May 2019 - 13:00

Always good when a plan comes together as you hoped it would. The Irish Sea is a tricky stretch of water to cross so we were delighted that our weather window turned out pretty much as we'd hoped

Posted: Sat, 18 May 2019 - 10:00

Just set off from Baltimore. Spinnaker is rigged and ready, just hoping the wind will fill in as we clear the coast. ETA St Mary's, Scilly, lunchtime tomorrow.

Posted: Fri, 17 May 2019 - 20:00

Anchored off Sherkin Island in Baltimore harbour. Maunie was originally called Maunie of Baltimore and her first owner kept her on a mooring just a mile from here. Slow internet via mobile phone but

Posted: Fri, 17 May 2019 - 18:00

At last the wind has swung around from the SE but it was still on the light side so we've delayed the passage to Scilly until tomorrow. With an extra day to play with we left the anchorage after

Posted: Thu, 16 May 2019 - 18:00

A 34nm sail from Bantry to Crookhaven in more typical Irish weather. Started well, with a gentle spinnaker run towards the mouth of Bantry Bay, then had favourable tide but wind on the nose heading

Posted: Tue, 14 May 2019 - 12:00

After 2 nights at anchor in Glengarriff we had a nice 7 mile beat over to Bantry this morning. The town used to have a poor reputation for yachts as the only option was to anchor or take a mooring in

Posted: Sun, 12 May 2019 - 15:00

A very pleasant 11nm sail further up into Bantry Bay. Anchored in Glengarriff, a beautiful harbour. This wind direction isn't the best for here so we avoided the visitors' moorings and instead

Posted: Sat, 11 May 2019 - 21:00

A great day's exploring - we dinghied up river to visit the little town of Sneem this morning, with the electric outboard doing nothing to disturb the wildlife. Then a 39nm sail round into Bantry

Posted: Fri, 10 May 2019 - 20:00

On a visitors' mooring in Oysterbed bay near Sneem - wow, just a beautiful spot. After 3 nights in the bright lights of Dingle (with a perfect luck of the Keatings moment last night when a band of

Posted: Tue, 7 May 2019 - 19:00

Safely into Dingle after a bit of an epic sail from Scilly. A bit too much motoring to start then 5 hours with the Parasailor - we took it down at midnight (always a fun challenge) then used white

Posted: Tue, 7 May 2019 - 13:00

Passed Fastnet Rock an hour ago with dolphin escort. Slower progress than hoped yesterday as the breeze took a while to arrive and we had some adverse current. Still aiming for Dingle this evening

Posted: Mon, 6 May 2019 - 09:00

Departing Scilly for Dingle (SW Ireland) in an hour. Looks as though we'll start under engine then head west to find the wind but then hope to be flying the Parasailor. ETA 17.00 tomorrow. Ignore

Posted: Sat, 4 May 2019 - 17:00

On a visitors' mooring in New Grimsby Sound, between the the islands of Tresco and Bryher in Scilly. We picked a super weather window to sail the 121 miles from Dartmouth overnight - gave us NW

Posted: Tue, 23 Apr 2019 - 11:57

Anchored off Trelissick House on the River Fal after entertaining day yesterday. Sir Robin Knox-Johnston marked the 50 years since his homecoming as the first person to circumnavigate solo and

Posted: Sun, 16 Sep 2018 - 00:00

Sorry for any confusion over lightning speed passages between Devon and Sydney - the YIT app appears to keep randomly inputting an old Australian entry from about 2 years ago! Anyway, Maunie is

Posted: Fri, 14 Sep 2018 - 06:27

It's good to be back aboard and doing a proper mini-cruise after a summer of weekend sailing - this working 5 days a week is very overrated! We left Dartmouth this morning and had a cracking 40nm

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