Voyages — Meander

Grimson-era Atlantic range

1993 Atlantic crossing

Meander's first documented Atlantic crossing and Bob Grimson's third Atlantic crossing in a boat he had built himself.

Venezuela to Nova Scotia

Bob's biography describes the yacht's broadest documented cruising range.

Bahamas

The Bahamas were a recurring cruising area. An independent log places Meander at Rock Sound, Eleuthera on 8 April 2008 and records an earlier Long Island encounter.

Geographic clues

Bob's painting notes mention Chesapeake Bay, Delaware Bay and Mahone Bay. These remain clues rather than automatically confirmed Meander ports.

2009 west-to-east Atlantic

Chris Phillips made a two-handed passage aboard Meander and later received the RNSA Tim Sex Trophy. Alec Townley is identified in later material, but the exact ports and dates remain an open research target.

2015 Scotland and Faroe Islands voyage

Schematic route of Meander's 2015 Scotland and Faroe Islands cruise — Route sequence reconstructed from Chris Phillips's recovered dated logs.

Phase	Route	Evidence note
4 May 2015	Loch Creran / Barcaldine	Relaunched after being ashore since September 2013; masts restepped 1 May.
Late June	Barcaldine → Oban/Kerrera → Dunstaffnage → Tobermory	Final preparation and first major northbound legs.
Late June	Tobermory → Inverie → Rona → Stornoway	North via Ardnamurchan and the Inner Sound.
Late June / 1 July	Stornoway → North Rona/Sula Sgeir area → Tvøroyri	North Atlantic passage to Suðuroy.
Early July	Tvøroyri → Sandur → Miðvágur → Tórshavn	Faroese cruising phase.
From 12 July	Tórshavn → Kinlochbervie	Shetland/Orkney plan abandoned because of forecast; direct passage south.
July	Kinlochbervie → Ullapool → Summer Isles → Loch Erisort → Stornoway	West-coast and Hebridean cruising.
Late July / early Aug	Stornoway → Plockton → Mallaig → Tobermory → Puilladobhran → Loch Creran	Final southbound return; back at Barcaldine by 5 August.