Its not all about boat maintenance and racing, the real reason to own a boat is the pleasure you can get from it, and sharing that time with friends.
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From the moment the evenings are light enough up to the summer break some keen volunteers at Medway YC run a series of 9 races on a Wednesday night.
We missed the start of the series as Sea Horse was stuck on the south coast and then school, wind and weat...
We intended to all go racing at the Medway Keel boat regatta this year but it turned out to be a bit to windy for filming, and much to windy for Izzy so Ian raced her with Tony and a mutual friend Stewart.
This is the story of what happened.
Pictures co...
Pretty much as the title suggests.
SeaHorse came with a complete set of B&G instruments that included an excellent Zeus 2 chart plotter in the cockpit. Although this is great when sailing its less convenient if your down below.
Installing the WiFi-...
There are lots of different ways in which you can clean the fouling from your yacht, this is how we do it at Medway Yacht Club.
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As ever the weather wasn't playing ball but it wasn't that bad either so we continued our journey home, actually making good time in the end even without the wind!
So after owning Sea Horse for a month we finally get to put her on her own mooring
The wind was still stubbornly in the north east but it had at least reduced in strength so we headed off on the next part of the journey home.
It was a boring and mostly uneventful journey, largely under motor however the UK border forces did lay on some ...
So with the wind refusing to budge from the north east we decide to keep Sea Horse in Newhaven marina fro another week and to justify the cost we go down and spend the weekend aboard
So its day to of our journey, bringing Sea Horse back from the Solent to the river Medway.
Today, because we didn't want another day like yesterday, and because the weather was getting worse not better, we make the short hop along the coast to Newhaven, w...
So we all drive down to Lymington with our friend Tony on the Friday evening before the bank holiday weekend.
Saturday morning we all get up early, Tony and Ian so that they can catch the best of the tides and begin the process of bringing SeaHorse, our ...
Not only do we buy her but we spend the night on board.
Then the next morning we have to reverse out of the marina, not
always easy on a sail boat you haven't sailed before, and hoist the sails for the first time.
It was all actually pretty uneventful ...
So Rowena has finally got wet. We launched her last Friday and have just come back from a great weekend of sailing and family time.
This year our first night at anchor was done the easy way.... lying on some one else's (Granddads) anchor. After all it was...
Ok ok so we still haven't got her wet but we are a big step closer.
This week Rowena finally leaves the side of the house, gets towed to the club and the mast goes up. Plus we do all that other stuff that has to be done in order that we can go sailing... ...
NOW SOLD THANK YOU FOR ALL THE INTEREST.
I quick walk around of Rowena our 20ft red Fox trailer sailor that we are offering for sale.
To find out more, and for a full inventory, take a look at our advert on Apollo Duck
http://yachts.apolloduck.co.uk/f...
We dont bore you with hours of film of Ian laying on his back sanding the hull, or rolling on paint, or polishing and buffing her top sides, but after weeks of avoiding the work we have finally gone and done something and we thought we should tell you abou...
This week we take some time out of our busy schedule (ha ha) to have a look at some other boats.
Clarke and Carter had a second hand boat show at Gillingham marina and we took a look at a few boats. Notably a Moody 28 that would make a perfect family crui...
Thanks for taking the time to watch our part 2 of our charity hair cut. We are having our lovely long hair cut off!! for Cancer Research UK because 3 out of Izzys 4 Grandparents now have Cancer :-(
If you want to help us you can give a donation through Ju...
Pretty much just what the title says it is.
Its not our idea, we have just copied it from others but its a really cheap and simple way of covering your windows that requires no holes to be drilled or fixings of any kind to be installed.
We have finally uncovered Rowena but apart from sorting out the wash boards haven't really done much else.
But at least we can get to the boat now to make a start and it shouldn't take to long.
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This is just a short clip to update you on what we have, or more particularly, haven't been doing on Rowena.
We also take you to Medway yacht club and catch up with Granddad and his Victoria 34
While its still cold Ian goes dinghy sailing on his own, mad!
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