Annie Hill has
been enjoying an almost continuous roving commission since 1975. In this time she
has sailed over 150,000 miles, largely on two boats: the junk-rigged, plywood, 34 ft Badger
and the gaff-rigged, steel, 35 ft Iron Bark. In this time she has sailed from
73° N to 61° S, has cruised in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, and spent a winter
aboard in Greenland, frozen in for 7 months. She has written two books: Voyaging
on a Small Income and Brazil and Beyond, both of which are still in
print. She sails with Trevor Robertson, the builder of Iron Bark, who has the
unique record of having over wintered both in Antarctica and above the Arctic Circle in a
completely unsponsored, home-built boat.
With Grateful thanks to Annie Hill for
allowing us access to her cruising notes, made available via her website. Links below:
This information is made available FREE by the RCC
Pilotage Foundation to download from this site. However, The Pilotage Foundation takes no
responsibility for its content or any act resulting as a result of downloading these
notes. Whilst every care has been taken to ensure that the information contained on
this site is accurate, the RCC Pilotage Foundation and the author hereby formally disclaim
any and all liability for any personal injury, loss and/or damage however caused, whether
by reason of any error, inaccuracy, omission or ambiguity in relation to the contents
and/or information contained on the site. This site contains selected information and thus
is not definitive. It does not contain all known information on the subject in hand and
should not be relied on alone for navigational use: it should only be used in conjunction
with official hydrographic data.
The RCC Pilotage Foundation and the author believe that the information which is included
is useful for planning projected passages and thus a useful aid to prudent navigation, but
the safety of a vessel depends ultimately on the judgement of the skipper, who should
assess all information, published or unpublished.
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Labrador notes
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