We spent a couple of days in Newtown Creek – ‘in’ being the crucial term here as the crew spent most of it either swimming or messing about in the dinghy. On Saturday we had a pleasant sail eastwards to…
Awash with Grandchildren!
Sarah and family came for lunch on Monday, leaving Mollie & Maisie with us. On Tuesday Pam and family did likewise, leaving Kane and Lucas. We headed down Poole Harbour and anchored off Brownsea Island in Blood Alley, where we…
Back on our home mooring
We left Totnes very early on a drizzly Wednesday morning, motored out of the river and set sail eastwards. How is it that the wind manages to be against us both ways? We fetched up at Lyme Regis but at…
Drying out at the pub
We came up the River Dart on Sunday in very squally weather, so it was testing to control the boat with the keel mostly up for the shallow waters. We nudged our way up Bow Creek and tied up right…
Some relaxing at last
In view of impending high winds, we sailed from Portsmouth all the way through to Poole on one tide, despite head winds – not something we would have achieved on Santana. The next morning we motored in strong winds to…