Bright (or at least for the first part) and early we headed down to Chesil Beach for Stew’s impromptu beach clean. It was great meeting Matt who had seen us on Facebook and joined us before his gym session, warming up his calves as we traipsed across the beach’s steep Read more…
After a quiet night on anchor, Joe and I got a lift to the beach early by Islay and we headed into Weymouth to find a marine engineers. We were in luck and a very nice guy gave us some exhaust gasket and told us where Halfords was for the Read more…
<should this go on 28th?> After a beautiful sunset we got treated to a harbour porpoise feeding near a neighbouring yacht. They need to eat 10% of their weight eat day and feed constantly , consuming around 3000 small fish a day. After a calm night at anchor we awoke Read more…
While doing the breakfast dishes I suddenly looked up to see a naked Stew jumping into the water. Apparently he’d dropped his sunglasses overboard, and didn’t want to get his wallet wet, so took his trousers off before jumping in! I would have taken the wallet out instead, but each Read more…
No wind, no chores, just pure rest and relaxation. Think my knees needed it after yesterday, I felt them in the morning even with all the stretching. There’s no wind forecast until Tuesday, so will definitely be ready to go by then. Just to make sure we’re prepared, we’ve made Read more…
After a few days in Brighton we were ready to leave. It was really special being back in such a familiar city surrounded by so many memories and friends, but when you know you’ve got distance to cover you don’t want to be in any one place for too long, Read more…
Chores in the morning, including Stew and Joe delving deep into the bilges to try and find why we were taking on water in Ramsgate. The wind had picked up suddenly in the night, and we had started rolling quite a bit. We were in the outer harbour, and the Read more…
With no wind and lots of rain we made the most of the day and carried on with the diesel bug investigation. Cleaning the tanks had helped massively but we were still having issues with one engine at low revs. Joe disconnected and cleaned each fuel line, finding the primary Read more…
The wind was strong and the sea state calm so we set out early to make the most of the great conditions. We had to motor back an hour to just off Hastings and launched our 9m and 11m kites. We are getting better at this now, using the dinghy Read more…
I’ve been in contact with my old school in hopes to arrange a visit on our way past. We had a grand plan that we could kite into the beach, and walk up the tunnel that connects the school to the beach through the cliff. And then possibly do a Read more…