Indalo: Sailing around
Britain in a Mirage 2700
In 2005 I sailed Indalo, my
27’ Mirage yacht, around the coast of mainland Britain. Setting out clockwise from Dartmouth
the voyage took three and a half months and covered 1985 miles, taking in over
60 ports and anchorages. Click on
the following links for more information.
4 Log
4 Plan
4 Photos
The Book
Around the
Island: Britain in a hundred days (Avista
Press 2007): ISBN
0-9555441-0-6.
The book is now out of print, but it can be downleaded here as a pdf. A few remaining hard copies are
currently available on Ebay, otherwise
some used ones can usually be found on Amazon.
Short articles:
4 A first Channel crossing attempt
Retrospective
I sold Indalo in 2008 after two more
seasons cruising the Channel and the Isles of Scilly: I couldn’t spare another summer
for a voyage around Ireland as I’d hoped, there were too many other
things I wanted to do, and my parents were beginning to need more help at
home. My biggest regret in
hindsight is not having made the short passage to Orkney when off the north
coast. I have since returned to
Scotland to walk the Crinan Canal, visit Arran, Bute and Great Cumbrae (both by
car ferry and by locally chartered yacht), revisit Islay, Mull and Skye, and
spend some time on Shetland (including Yell, Unst and Fetlar), but so far
Orkney has escaped me.
Stan Lester, June 2026
