The worst of the rain and the early morning frost is now past us so the covers come off. Now we can crack on with the rest of the boat!
Sailing with the Foxwell Family
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 ...
Yachting isn't all glamour. Todays film is a short clip of me cleaning :-(
There is lots to do, but we thought we would start with the electrics. At least this way we will have some working lights to help with the other work that ...
As many of you may already know my mother is currently undergoing treatment for her second form of cancer. My godmother, who we all call Auntie Cathy is ...
So this is the beginning of our Red Fox yacht adventures, buying the boat and bringing her home.
Some of the yachts that we saw out on the river today... either racing or just out enjoying the great sailing weather.
It was saturday the 9th of May and Wilsonians sailing club held its annual open day. This year's event was as well organised as ever and saw loads of club ...
We bought our Red Fox, Rowena, in December and have slowly been renovating her and getting her back in ship shape order, ready for the water. This is just a ...
As you will know if you have been following our films we sold our SunFast 32i at the end of last season however Nanny and Grandad still have Pintail, their ...
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 ...
funNstuff 2015 Willies Warm Up Series Race 10. The final race with Ian out in his Blaze dinghy again
This was the last race in the warm up series and took place in the afternoon, close to high water. So although the weather hadn't improved since race 9 there ...
It was an overcast and pretty miserable day that greeted the competitors for the last two races in the wilsonians warm up series but with again a puffy F3 wind ...
So we dont pretend to be experts at tidal river sailing or for that matter Blaze sailing but for what its worth this is what Ian was doing during the first lap ...
With a good forecast and with what turned out to be great weather to go sailing in a few more members turned up for race 5 of the Wilsonian Dinghy club 2015 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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... ...
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 ...
This is a short, and rather dodgy film depicting the start of the New Years day race at wilsonian's sailing club on the River Medway. It does rather focus on ...