Its a lovely day and with the tide just starting to come in we head back down river and work our way through the mud and the creaks to Tollesbury marina. ...
Sailing with the Foxwell Family
We leave Bradwell marina and have a great sail up the Blackwater to Osea Island, where we beach Rowena and have a lovely few ours relaxing on dry land.
Today its an early start for the journey from Burnham Marina on the river Crouch, northwards to the Blackwater and Bradwell Marina. Most people when they ...
The weather started to brighten up so we left Fambridge and headed back down river to Burnham Marina, via Brandy hole (just to take a look at whats there). We ...
No sailing today but some family time.
We leave Burnham Marina and motor up the Crouch with the last of the incoming tide to Fambridge Marina.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
Pretty much as the title suggests. A short film showing how we made our own Lazy Jacks and fitted them to Rowena, our Red Fox.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...