Sailing & Wildlife, wild food foraging & beach clean up

SAIL WALK ROW Voyages

National Beach Clean Up Month

September is National Beach Watch Month. We always try and help the Marine Conservation Society with their annual Beach Clean Up Event. All around the British Isles different groups 'adopt a beach' to monitor the amount of plastics and rubbish they find in an annual beach clean up.

Our best contibution, if the weather allows, is to find a cove which is inaccessible from the shore. We like to anchor off and and row in with our clinker rowing boat number 8 to explore and beachcomb anyway, so it is nice to take away some of the plastic rubbish.

The Autumn is our skippers favorite time of year with empty beaches, plenty of wildlife and good for bird watching too as they start to migrate from all over Europe. The seas are still warmish but the nights can be crisp and clear with great stars.

Our SAIL WALK ROW voyages are designed with novices and newcomers to sailing in mind and appeal to those who particularly like a holiday with plenty of fresh air, healthy exercise and great food.

By combining half day sailing with a chance to stretch your legs ashore you can experience the best of both worlds, whilst working up a great appetite. In terms of the sailing there is no experience needed and the skipper will break you into a whole new language of sailing terms and show you what ropes you need to pull and why ! It is however a hands-on activity holiday with the skipper being the only staff on board - so the guest crew will fully involved in handling the sails, steering and keeping a lookout, rowing ashore and assisting in the navigating if they want - but we won’t drop you in the deep end without help !

We won’t be yomping miles and we do welcome all ages, but you will need to be reasonable agile e.g. able to get down a short ladder from Eve into a dinghy.

The emphasis is on a holiday afloat, with plenty of activity involved in sailing the boat, combined with the chance to explore ashore along Cornwall or Devon’s rugged and varied coastline. You live onboard Eve - the wind dictates whether we sail East or West, but where ever we go the magnificent SW coast path allows us access to coastal woodlands, wild headlands and historic fishing harbours.

Eve’s skipper know many wildlife haunts, caves and coves, pubs worth walking inland for and spectacular viewpoints. Adam or Debbie love walking and will join you where possible or help you explore for yourselves.

These voyages also typically seek out more unspoilt anchorages where Eve might be the only boat and provide a chance to get away from hectic 21st century life and be more in tune with your surroundings, the natural elements, wildlife and the beautiful coastal landscape of South Cornwall. We have maps and guidebooks on board.