Happy Christmas to you all, and two important questions before we start on the review of the year: Are you now, or have you ever been, an...
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After a distinctly gri m summer in the North Sea we are contemplating taking Kalessin down to southern Brittany in 2016. At the moment o...
Last night I went down to SYH to take a look at Kalessin 's tricolour & bicolour navigation lights. The result was frightening, and ...
Since our return from the Netherlands we have managed a pathetic amount of time aboard Kalessin and almost no sailing. Part of this is be...
It's very awkward being the last to leave anywhere, let alone leaving a marina in a boat. You say goodbye to people and then see them an...
We are home safely after an 18-hour passage from the Roompotsluis in conditions which could not have been more different from those we saile...
Zierikzee was, as ever, delightful. We thought of our friends Richard and Cathy whose new Arcona is too big to fit under the fixed Roompotsl...
I posted this on Facebook but felt blog readers would enjoy it too. Considering what good English almost all Dutch people speak, their names...
On Wednesday we left Marina Port Zélande at 1030, giving me just time to pop around the corner for groceries. The nearest supermarket is ins...
What we were expecting today was a boring motor into very light winds. What we got was a genoa run up to the lock at Bruinisse, a wait for t...
Yerseke proved pleasant but not very exciting - a little, mostly modern, Dutch town with almost everything closed on Mondays. We ate dinner ...
On Saturday Ben and I shopped for groceries, a new pair of Crocs for me as my old pair has no tread left at all and therefore almost no wet ...
With a forecast of 1.2m waves and NW4-5 I really wasn't looking forward to today. We had already decided to forgo the "blue wave...
A non-sea day today, with pretty much the whole WOA crew on a trip to Bruges - by coach, as it was worth it with 32 of us. Last time Sam ...
On Monday high water at Tollesbury was at 12 noon. Access is an hour either side of HW so I was aiming to leave just before noon if possible...
It's been a slow start to the season but at last we have done some proper sailing and the longest passage with Sam on board since he had...
Strata 6 in a typical location off Felixstowe Many people nowadays take a "fast-track" Yachtmaster course - Guy was one of the...
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