The best part of making a new port is I get to have a really long ‘guilt’ walk. My humans feel guilty that, despite the fact they have to play and entertain me on the boat during passage, I don’t really get to go for a ‘walk’. So the first […]
Yearly archives: 2012
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Yesterday was such a beautiful day at sea. We followed fresh grilled tuna lunch with fresh grilled tuna dinner watching a fabulous sun set. It is amazing how humble being at sea makes you. You are alone on watch, surrounded by a huge expanse of water rushing by. The wavelets, […]
I can see now why any one would both fear and respect the Bay of Biscay. We left on Sunday the 19th (Happy Anniversary human owners) with the promise of fair winds to come. Surprise, surprise, surprise, they never materialized. Instead we beat into a South Westerly wind on the […]
Not everyone is suited to the ‘cruising’ lifestyle. You need to be either a ‘little’ crazy, deluded or eccentric. Or maybe a little of all of them. Despite what you may have read in all those ‘sell up and sail away’ books I think if you answer the three questions […]
We left L’Aberwrach at the assigned time in all the guide books to tackle the Chanel du Four and the Raz de Seine to get around the point of the Finistere penisula to Audierne. Both have a bad reputation that did not materialise as we had fair winds and tides […]
Sorry I haven’t emailed you an update in a while. It took a bit of effort to escape the pirates. I finally ditched them on the most southerly point in England, Lizard Point. You can not get any further south with out a boat. And that is exactly what I […]