Last weekend we gave a talk to the Haven Ports Yacht Club - our home club at SYH. It was a disgusting evening, pouring with rain, very wind...
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The Grand Tour is officially over. Kalessin of Orwell sailed between the pierheads of Suffolk Yacht Harbour just after 5pm on Sunday 14 Sep...
Kalessin reached Calais on Wednesday evening after three very full days on the industrialised and busy northern canals. Here we are on the m...
Our plan today was to get to Pont L'Eveque at the start of the Canal du Nord. (This is our revised plan - originally we planned to use t...
On the canals - 22 August 2008 After 10 days on the canals it seems as though we have never been anywhere else. It has become normal to have...
The Saone at its most gorgeous - early morning mist rising from the water. Just after I took this we went aground Moored to the quay in Lyon...
We're in St Jean de Losne, just south of Dijon, for a day of rest and stocking up with food and chandlery before we head up the seriousl...
Lyon is France’s second largest city and is on both the Rhone and the Saone. At present, however, it has no dedicated yacht harbour. It has ...
I'd just like to make it quite clear that the TGV was brilliant, highly recommended, the seats were great, the view was gorgeous, and al...
Sam left Port st Louis this morning with a volunteer crew of two. He says there's only about half a knot of current and they are making ...
Sam has been in France since last week, and has managed to refit the heat exchanger, sort out a few other problems with leaks, and get Kale...
We didn't take a camera when we went canoeing because we really didn't want to drop it in the Waveney. If we had taken a picture it ...
My friend Anne has told me off for not posting since May. What can I say? Not much has changed in the last three weeks. We have ordered a fo...
...Kalessin made slow progress from Badalona to Blanes: Sam spent one day last week worrying at the back of his mind about whether he had re...
Kalessin is out of the water and her mast removed and ready for storage or transport. Sam said that the hull was clean and lovely, but the ...
I have just had a brief conversation with Him Outdoors. He is very cross and says "the whole thing has been a f***ing disaster". W...
Sam and Robin had a really bad first day - it took them 12 hours to get to Blanes at an average speed of 2.2 knots, heading almost straight ...
Sam and Robin and Kalessin have left Badalona today, heading for Port St Louis. Sam says: We are going! Forecasts look OK, still a lot of c...
Sam and Robin are still in Badalona. Sam says there are strong easterlies blowing, and Windguru shows cloud, rain, wind gusting up to 40 kno...
I promised to include a link to www.sailinmallorca.com/CaptainsBlog - a blog by Nicholas Lovell. He kindly included a link to this site, so...
Our 2008 voyage is about to begin. On Wednesday Sam flies out to Barcelona where he'll meet up with his old friend Robin. Their plan is...
On Tuesday we caught the train to Girona (above), which is a really lovely medieval town about 40 miles north of Barcelona. It has a cathedr...
We planned to go sailing this afternoon but by 12 noon everything was ready – kit stowed away below, sails and engine rigged and tested, vis...
After five days of constant wind we woke this morning to peace – that is to say, less noise from the surrounding rigging, wind generators, h...
Finally have a flaky internet connection - so a quick post. Will polish later. Wednesday 26 March Monday – a public holiday here, as it is i...
We spent an excellent couple of hours down at Haven Ports Yacht Club for which we have finally paid our sub this year, talking to a couple ...
This is the revised route through the French canals: Still subject to confirmation and possible argument. We have to confirm that Calais is ...
With the boat so far away, sailing seems very remote at the moment. I'm not reading the yachting magazines very avidly or even logging o...
Having acquired a ukulele I've been exploring all the website which provide ukulele chords. Yesterday I found the chords for Beyond the ...
Our presents were much less sailing-related this year than in many previous years. Perhaps that's because we already have a lot of what ...
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