Watch Sailing & Boating Adventures Around the World tagged “Foxwell”

funNstuff. Ian talks about his Blaze sailing at the Medway Regatta 2015

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,...

Jul 25, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:11:55

funNstuff Wilsonians Dinghy Sailing Regatta 2015. Ian was out in his Blaze

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 ...

Jul 22, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:15:44

Blaze Nationals 2015

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...

Jul 17, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:11:48

EP19 Scrubbing off…. scrubbing off our Red Fox trailer sailer that is!

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...

Jul 04, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:07:54

INSTALLING LAZY JACKS in our Red Fox trailer sailer yacht

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.

Jul 04, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:11:47

funNstuff Wilsonians Rescue Boat Duty, we get to play in a rib!

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...

Jul 01, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:18:03

funNstuff Commodores Day at Medway Yacht Club 2015

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.

Jun 27, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:13:05

OUR FIRST NIGHT AT ANCHOR. onboard our Red Fox trailer sailor in Stangate creek on the Medway

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...

Jun 24, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:17:37

LAUNCHING OUR RED FOX TRAILER SAILER – EP17

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. Music: http://www.purple -planet.com Music: http://www.bensound.com/royalty-free-music

Jun 17, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:07:45

funNstuff Wilsonians Commodores series race 2

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 ...

Jun 13, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:14:34

EP16 Loading up and taking our Red Fox trailer sailer to the club ready to launch.

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.

Jun 10, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:07:11

FAMILY SAILING ON A SINGLE HANDED BLAZE DINGHY

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...

Jun 03, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:16:50

EP15 At last the covers some off of our Red Fox trailer sailor.

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!

May 30, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:03:49

EP14 Work continues. An update on the current state of our Red Fox trailer sailor.

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.

May 27, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:07:40

EP13 Cleaning! Work continues on our Red Fox trailer sailor.

Yachting isn't all glamour. Todays film is a short clip of me cleaning :-(

May 23, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:03:39

EP12 The start of work on our Red Fox trailer sailer.

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 needs doing, which invariably gets done after work... in the dark

May 20, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:06:21

funNstuff Race for Life May 2015 to raise money for the fight against cancer

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 currently very, VERY ill with it and Izzys god mother, Auntie Jenny, has also recently been diagnosed ...

May 17, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:09:14

EP11 Buying our Red Fox trailer sailer yacht, and bringing her home to the Medway

So this is the beginning of our Red Fox yacht adventures, buying the boat and bringing her home.

May 13, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:07:43

funNstuff – Yachts sailing on the Medway May 2015

Some of the yachts that we saw out on the river today... either racing or just out enjoying the great sailing weather.

May 12, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:02:14

funNstuff Wilsonians sailing club open day 2015 (with a great Fun N Stuff with the Foxwells ending)

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 members helping out. Ian volunteered and was tasked with taking visitors out in one of the clubs ding...

May 10, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:06:02

EP10 A look at our Red Fox, trailer sailor, sailing yacht

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 glimpse of what we have been up to with more films to follow

May 06, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:05:53

EP09 Launching Pintail, a Victoria 34 at Medway Yacht Club

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 Victoria 34, and todays film shows her going back in the water ready for the 2015 sailing season. A...

Apr 21, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:13:19

EP08 Holiday 2014 pt3 in our Jeanneau Sunfast 32i

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...

Apr 05, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:12:20

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 was now at least plenty of water to set the course in. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/

Mar 24, 2015
Language: EN
Play Time: 00:08:20

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