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So we've found a boat. A 1981 Jeanneau Sun Fizz 40. It looks great, feels right and the price is within budget. Next step is to have the boat inspected by a certified boat surveyor. One with Swiss certification due to our passports. Our broker recommended ...

Just about everybody at one point or another has had either the dream or the passing notion of getting on a boat sailing into the sunset. So why not follow an ordinary middle aged guy who finally goes and lives the dream. After thirty-five years in the ad ...

This is the last in our series of films covering our 2014 holiday up the east coast of England. We had some miserable weather but also, ironically, on the penultimate day we also had some lovely light winds, flat water messing around in boats kind of weat...

This film starts with us leaving the river Deben however it didn't all go to plan. Pintail actually went aground and after getting herself off found she then had a horrible noise coming from the engine/propeller. Still we made it over the to river Orwell ...

I expect the forecast of F5-F8 and freezing rain !! had kept people away but a few hardy souls turned up for race 1 of the Wilsonian Dinghy club 2015 warm up series on the river Medway in Kent, England. It turned out to be a chilly F2-4 with some big gust...

So this is part one of our summer cruise up the east coast of england. Starting from our home in the Medway we made our way up the coast to Shotley marina at the entrance to the River Orwell, and then from here headed over to the river Deban and the Tidemi...

This short film shows izzys first sail now in her new boat. Its a Jack Holt designed Bumblebee dinghy, a nice simple dinghy with a slightly unusual rig. The first sail was just outside the Medway yacht club and then the next weekend we towed it down to Sta...

This was to be the first proper sail in our new boat and was a pretty uneventful weekend apart from at the beginning, where a problem with the starter relay prevented us from turning off the engine... just in case it wouldn't restart. But it was to be a g...

In this film we show you a bit of our sail, well motor! back from the river Orwell, down the English East coast to White Magics new home on the River Medway. It was a pretty uneventful journey which turned out to be perfect for us as we only had her lifte...

Following on from the first film that we did about White Magic we thought we would upload some more clips showing you a little more of the detail. Today... the beginning.... from the day we bought her up to the point at which she was lifted back into the ...

This is a short film that shows our year with White Magic, a Jeanneau Sun Fast 32i sailing yacht. The story began at the start of the year when we sold our old boat, Muskrat Ramble, and Benneteau First 32s5 and where on the look out for something to repl...