So Ians just bought an old Blaze dinghy and wanted to remove the logo's from the side. This was to make it look a little more modern and less like the 10 year old boat that it is.
The forums suggested that it was simple and that all you needed was a hair ...
So the plan was to head off to Fambridge today, just a bit further up the Crouch, before the weather turned but it didn't happen.
In brief the outboard kept cutting out so we turned back. All it turned out to be was the small lever that selects between th...
Well not always on dry land, Izzy gets to play in her dinghy and we spend some time on the beech... well as close as Burnham gets to a beach. But its family fun all the same.
So day 2 or our summer cruise and we sail up to the Crouch and visit Burnham yacht harbour. Only this time, making use of our shallow draft, the journey plan is to head inland, and cut through via the Havengore bridge and into the Roach... to get to the Cr...
So this year we are once again going to have a couple of weeks off work during the summer months to have a family cruise up the east coast of England.
Only this time we are doing it in our 20ft Red Fox trailer sailer yacht. This first film is really just ...
For those that don't know the design this is a short film showing you around our Red Fox.
We don't pretend to be experts on the class and although we have never yet met another one we do believe that ours is fairly standard.
If you dont own or if you're not at least interested in the Blaze dinghy this will be very dull.
If you do or are however then this is a walk through of Ians boat. How its rigged and set up and why he likes it so much
Finally its actually being offered ...
At the risk of making himself look and sound silly here is another onboard film, with commentary from Ian on how he sailed the first race of this years Medway regatta.
I guess its only really of interest to Blaze sailors or people that sail on the Medway,...
Things couldn't have gone much better really.
The weather was great
The wind was great
The club did a fantastic job of organising the event, probably the best run and smoothest regatta weekend yet.
And to cap it all off Ian won!
In fact the only thing ...
Held over a three day weekend (Friday, Saturday and Sunday) the Blaze nationals were being held at Hayling Island this year, on the south coast of England.
Ian and Stuart went down on Thursday to pitch the tent and caravan and to organise their boats read...
So if you leave a yacht on a mooring sooner or later you will need to scrub off the bottom to remove the build up of weed, barnacles and slim that for some reason loves to live on antifouling paint!
At Medway we are lucky enough to have a set of movable m...
Wilsonians is a sailing club that is run by its members, for its members. As such we all give up a couple of Sundays each year to help run things.
Some people look after the club itself, others look after the sailors, primarily by feeding them! Then of c...
Just a fun day out for the whole club.
Yacht and dinghy racing for people that like racing, a fancy dress sail past for those that don't and plenty of other fun activities for the rest of the family.
So after all the hard work we finally get to have some fun on Rowena, our Red Fox trailer sailer yacht.
The wind was pretty strong for the journey down river, and dead on the nose, so as we wanted to make use of the high tide and explore some of the cree...
It seems to have taken ages but we finally have our Red Fox ready for the water. Its not finished but its close enough and we are itching to go sailing.
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It was a lovely day but with not a lot of wind. Hannah joined our friend Tony on his V3000 trapeze dinghy, and Izzy and Daddy filmed the action from Granddads boat.
Reasonable turn out of competitors given the weather and I think we caught most people on ...
That's it, ready or not we are packing up our Red Fox trailer sailor and taking her down to the boat club.
Well have her in the water soon then we can begin our next series of adventures.
It was an overcast but other wise pleasant evening with a nice gentle breeze from the west and an incoming tide so we all decided to go for a sail on daddy's Blaze dinghy.
The Blaze is not really a cruising boat and we were worried that a) we wouldn't all...
Things are coming along. The electronics are nearly done, although until we get the mast up they cant be completed.
So we are now sorting out the rest of the stuff inside, this is just an update on progress so far.
Yachting isn't all glamour. Todays film is a short clip of me cleaning :-(
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