Well, here Ben and I are, at home on this rather pleasant September day and thinking about going kayaking on Rockland Broad. Meanwhile Guy i...
Post Page Advertisement [Top]
So... 111.3 miles in 21 hours, about eight or nine of them sailing properly. Flat seas, light winds and a blooming Dutch boat in our berth w...
Last week Sam's cousin Helen complained of a headache and went to hospital. She was diagnosed with a brain tumour and died over the week...
OK, this is a bit weird. We're moored up on a canal in central Amsterdam, rafted three deep, and waiting for the night convoy to start s...
Our plan is to head down to the Delta on the standing mast route. This includes something which Sam has always wanted to do, going through A...
We finally left Medemblik this morning with a forecast of W4-5, decreasing to SW3-4 this evening. The forecast was just about accurate and a...
We left Amsterdam on Monday after several days of waiting for a forecast which didn't have a force 7 in it. Winds are generally a force ...
I can't believe these depressions keep coming over. Isn't there supposed to be a gap between them? This feels like the umpteenth day...
Just a quick one as this connection is a bit erratic, although free. We arrived with perfect timing at the Sixhaven in Amsterdam yesterday a...
Well, we made it to Ijmuiden with almost no problems apart from a nasty, choppy sea with short, steep waves for the first half of the journe...
Between the Scandinavian depression heading off to the east, and the depression forming somewhere off Ireland, Saturday might be quite a nic...
Possibly we could have gone today. On this side of the North Sea there is a window of opportunity after Monday's depression passes to th...
I thought I was a bit of a wimp avoiding the forecast for today of SW4-5 occasionally 6 - I'm sure we'd have been fine. If that'...
Before we head off to the Netherlands we thought it would be a good idea to try a shorter cruise – just to check that everything on the boat...
I finished my contract with Aviva UK on Friday 26 June - and I don't start the next one with Aviva Europe until 10 August. So that gives...
I'm a bit shocked to see that it's five months since I last posted to the blog. Admittedly, we haven't yet been sailing this yea...
After weeks of agonising over colours, patterns, textures, fabrics, prices and more we have finally commissioned Jeckells * to replace all t...
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...
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...
Bottom Ad [Post Page]
