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Normandie Trip 2004
Een trip Oostende - Dover - Brighton- Fecam - Ouisterham - Honfleur - Le Havre op de Mambo van Channel Sailing Oostende
May 01, 2009: We vertrokken vanmorgen vroeg uit Brihton voor een oversteek naar Normandie, ,doordat de wind wegviel verlegden we de koers naaar Fecam » read more
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The passage from Stability to being a Yacht owner......
Rather like Odysseus sailing from Troy to Ithaca, a totally random set of events involving pain, fear, delays and eventual triumph.
August 20, 2009: Apolgies to our readers for the lengthy break in our saga. Your e mails of concern for our welfare touched us deeply. Worry not, gentle reader, we are alive, dry and amazingly still afloat. Just to re-cap. A couple, of advanced years, with absolutely no sailing experience apart from two or three episodes of Hornblower and a quick look round the Cutty Sark go for a trip round the bay on an old O... » read more
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Flying Colours escapes...
Lough Neagh to somewhere around Ireland/Scotland
September 20, 2009: On Wednesday the wind had abated slightly and we decided to set off to Donegal. Fraser’s sister and her family were staying in a holiday cottage not far from Greencastle in lough Foyle, so we decided to pay them a visit.The sea was still pretty rough when we set off, so we decided to give all 3 children sea-sick pills. Big mistake. Although all 3 had shown themselves to ... » read more
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From UK to Greece
Started with a 31ft sailing boat from dover ,with destination greece. at present in mallorca.Propably we are two of the few (maybe the only ?) greeks who live on a cruising boa...
September 28, 2009: first passage and all ok ,norman assisted » read more
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Day Skipper Practical - Clyde
5 Day qualifying trip and passages under examination to qualify for the RYA Day Skipper/International Certificate of Competence Skipper ticket.
May 24, 2010: Day 5 – no sailing today, less than 5Kn wind and a damp fog. We did get to see some more dolphins though, so it wasn’t a complete waste! » read more
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Pickled pirates in paradise,
We haven't a clue, like a lot of people who have this dream to sail off into the distance, it is changing everyday. What we know we want to do is take out a couple of years, an...
August 15, 2010: We have just spent a fantastic week in Turkey and have come away with a wealth of experience. We flew out to Dalaman and were transfered to a flottilla in Fethiye. Our boat was called Sauntere and was a 34.3 Oceanis, this week turned out to be a whole new learning experience. Our lead boat which had the skipper, Allen, his wife, the hostess, Kristin and the engineer, Tom. They were ... » read more
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Preparation in Scotland
Preparations to go cruising
June 15, 2011: After our first little trip I found a few things that did not work or needed some maintenance. The main thing was the autopilot. Although the delivery crew, who sailed the boat from England to Scotland, said the autopilot worked fine, I found it did not work when we took the boat out for a day sail. No big deal for a few hours, but of course I need this vital piece of equipment to work for... » read more
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RTI 2011
2011 sees the 80th anniversary of the world famous Round The Island Race - surely one of the most spectacular races around? We'll be taking part on Prime Evil our Sigma 400, ...
April 18, 2011: Four of this Round The Island Race team joined us for this, the first of two RTI training weekends.After a curry on board we headed off to the Clarence for a pint or two, and a chance to get to know each other. Two of the team ( Damian and John M) had been down a couple of weeks ago for the ISAF Offshore Safety Course ( part of our Fastnet Campaign), with Rupert (a friend of Damian’s) and... » read more
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To the Med via the French canals
After years of dreaming and preparation we have at last started our adventure. Our plan is to sail our across the Channel, down the French canals to the Med and then turn east f...
October 07, 2011: On Monday the 26th, with Torquil and his friends back at work in the City, we took our leave of Lymington, sailing quietly off our pontoon and out into the Solent. By lunchtime it became clear that the 2.5 knots we were making under sail were exactly counteracted by the 2.5 knots of tide running against us. We were pleasantly sailing along but going nowhere!Motoring gingerly into Southampton Wa... » read more
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Atlantic Challenge 2011
North Wales - Ireland - Spain - Portugal - Madeira - Canaries - Caribbean - Bermuda - Azores - UK
November 12, 2011: NB- This is the original first installment, split into two as the end was always getting lost for some reason. I willl post the next phase shortly! Cheers.Saturday 15th October 2011, departure day…Having put back the date many times during the week already, it had finally arrived. I was feeling the pressure as I made the final packing selection, -then a definitely final one just in ... » read more
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