As we dont have long moved to Treguier on tuesday and St Helier thursday well st aubins bay moved into St Helier marina friday , going to Gurnsey on Sunday
Crossing to roscoff /bloscon saturday then will move along over few days towards st malo Not sure we will have enough time tho should get as far as paimpol but will see depends on weather which looks ok .
Have Been st Malo before so would like to …
We fitted an inverter from Aleck last year we have 5/6 batteries 2 are 200 amp but havent used the inv much yet .Have used a few times for microwave with no problems but we dont have much of a mains power requirement. We have 160 watt alternator an…
Hi all Hope everybody ok. We have not been on for a while have had a lot of family issues .
We are hoping to be going cross channel from Falmouth around the 11/ 12th july towards L'Aber'Wrach from there maybe along north Brittany coast, east i…
The run down Channel du Four is very quick with the wind in the right direction a big push from the tide 5 knots towards the old monks at the bottom ,we only had a knot with us at Valbelle. Top to bottom is only an hour and a half.
The picture o…
We left L'Aber'wrach early in the morning with spaced between a dozen other boats most of whom were heading for the Channel du four . There was a lot of swell still left but 2 hours later the sun had flattened it. We could barely see Ushant for mist…
L'Aber'wrach was just a brief resting place this time prior to pushing on down the channel du four in what would proove to be a flat calm for the third time! Who says its rough down there itsa pussycat.
Dawn was accompanied. with the morning tea on…
Cheers going to hsve another go during the week. Will look at the size thing, will have to put tgem in a separate folder and use the cli to resize. Edit Decided to try to use some HTML. which seems to work better ,with links to photobucket.
Well back to the summer we set off from Porth Hallow just round from the lizard just after dawn and made L'Aber'wrach in around 16 hours just befor dark.This was a second attempt! The first attempt from coverack saw us back at back to Helston
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Well I'm twiddling my thumbs while you are all scoffing at the meet and eat. Jackie is gallevanting in buxton so I though I would try and fathom how to post and edit . I seem to have fathomed how to edit words and put pictures up so I will post a fe…
I'm a little smaller now ,then again I might be a bit near. It was a good meel sorry we are missing today. Jackie had booked just after christmas to go see Dillie Keane(facinating aida) at buxton on April the 8th.
Hope you all have a good time
gallivanter we find that the pulleys in the back port locker need constant greasing particulally the top single one ,the most difficult to get at , if that one becomes sticky the friction does increase considerably , this year im going to replace i…
WE have a modified the dog house to nearly full width it allows for 2
cocpit covers. One splits the cockpit in 2 and is strong enough to use
at sea in all weather the other enclosed the whole cockpit but we are
going to remake that on as the …
We fitted a holding tank just forward of the heads(vent in anchor locker ) . It only holds about 10 gal and uses gravity to empty. I did fit a a pumpout fitting in the anchor locker but have not used it yet.The tank was fabricated from polycarb wit…
A couple of years ago we had a trip to the Isles of Scilly in company with Touch of Gold , half a boat , he filmed us while we filmed him in fairly bouncy conditions, 2 hours later it was F7/gusting 8.
well second attempt has nearly got i…
Hi all enjoyed the meet at Mylor, Hope to get to the next on I was going to post a couple of short videos but I cannot find a way to embed them
will have to have a closer look
Adrian & Jackie
by the way it took 5 days of contortions to fit and i had to move the control knobs from the top of the fridge to the bottom to fit it in the space .The thought of fitting another one makes my back cringe...
Adrian
Achillea 8m catalac
We have an old electolux rm (3way fitted )fitted. I know there are doom mongers out there but I was careful in fitting, lining the hull side, cupboard sides and the underneath of the worktop with ceramic tiles glued with fi…
