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YOU WANT ME TO DO WHAT to entertain our daughter
So if you watched last weeks episode you will know that we made the river Crouch our first port of call as the weather forecast didn't look to clever. And we were right, it was intermittent miserable with short periods of hopeful. So this week, rather than...
HOW MANY BIG SHIPS!
Ok so its not that dramatic but on the first day of this years Foxwell Family sailing holiday we did come across an awful lot of large shipping when crossing the Thames estuary. We make these films just for fun, and we hope that you have enjoyed watching ...
OUR NEW PROJECT BOAT can you guess what it is!
Ok so we'll make it easy for you. Its a Squib. A small, two person, racing keel boat which may not look that special but they are really sweet little boats. So with a growing fleet on the river Medway we have brought an old boat to do up so that we can joi...
INFLATABLE DINGHY REPAIR 4 YEARS ON and what they dont tell you about the glue!
It was a miserable day, and while I was sorting things out at home I realised that it had been four years since I fixed the inflatable, and that some of you might be interested in how it worked out. This then reminded me of another repair that we made and ...
A SUNNY BANK HOLIDAY SAIL TO ESSEX
Not much to say really. It was a sunny bank holiday weekend, which almost never happens, so we wanted to make use of it and go for a sail. We have friends in Burnham who we haven't seen for almost 3 years and another friend who had just bought a Moody 29 i...
NEW SAILS AND NEW RIGGING, this is what we have been doing
So when Daphy first came out of the water we got busy and did loads of the things that were on our to do list. Such as replacing the standing rigging, servicing the running rigging, fix the water leak on the calorifier, replace the hoses on the head orderi...
BIKES AND BOATS doesn’t get much better than this
Its that time of year when the weather turns cold wet and miserable which means its also the time to get Daphy out of the water. Its a chance to dry her out, do some of that boat maintenance stuff that always needs doing and as being on the hard at MYC is ...
CRUISER CLASS RACING ON THE MEDWAY – BURTON CUP 2020 RACE 5
The Burton cup is an event held by the Medway cruising club every year in October. Spread over 4-5 weeks it provides some low key cruiser racing and its an event that we always enjoy. So this year we are again crewing for Steve and Kevin aboard their Hustl...
SAILING SINGLE HANDED. Tacking a boat with a large genoa!
So this week Ian gets a chance to just go for a sail, on his own, just for the fun of it. There wasn't much wind, although there was enough and it gave him a chance to figure out how to tack that big genoa on his own, even with the inconvenience of a wheel...
CRUISER CLASS RACING ON THE MEDWAY – BURTON CUP 2020 RACE 2
The Burton cup is an event held by the Medway cruising club every year in October. Spread over 4-5 weeks it provides some low key cruiser racing and its an event that we always enjoy. So this year we are again crewing for Steve and Kevin aboard their Hustl...
CRUISER CLASS RACING ON THE MEDWAY – BURTON CUP 2020 RACE 1
The Burton cup is an event held by the Medway cruising club every year in October. Spread over 4-5 weeks it provides some low key cruiser racing and its an event that we always enjoy. So this year we are again crewing for Steve and Kevin aboard their Hustl...
WHAT WE THINK OF OUR JEANNEAU SUN ODYSSEY 34.2
Although we have owned Daphi for around 6 months now, with the restrictions that were imposed by the government because of the Covid 19 pandemic, we haven't actually had that much of a chance to use her. But we have been able to spend a few weekends on boa...
SAILING FROM BURNHAM BACK TO THE MEDWAY – 2020 CRUISE DAY 7
After such a glorious first week the following week was looking much worse, with thunderstorms and strong winds forecast. So with this in mind we decided to cut the cruise short, head home and maybe spend some time out and about on the Medway when the weat...
FROM THE TWIZZLE TO THE CROUCH – 2020 CRUISE DAY 6
So after some fabulous weather for the first week the forecast for next week isnt looking so good. With this in mind we decide to head back south to the river Crouch, to Burnham, to meet up with friends and make a plan for what to do next. If you would li...