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ITS NOT SCARY REALLY
So this week we make the short journey along the coast from the river Orwell and into the river Deban. Its a pretty straightforward trip apart from one thing. The Deban is surrounded by large sandbars that are constantly moving and it always seems to get o...
THE CAMERA DOESNT DO IT JUSTICE
Man did it rain, and we only took the camera out for a brief period after the worst had happened so you really wont get to see just how much! Any way this week we leave Fambridge on the River Crouch, have a brief stop at Burnham and then head off further ...
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...
Ep 7: WINTER LIVEABOARD TO-DO list
Instagram: @svnorthernreach Facebook.com/towardstheadventure We sold everything and moved onto a boat. Now it’s time to start getting Northern Reach, our 1983 Whitby 42, ready for our winter life aboard on at Port Credit Harbour Marina on Lake Ontario. ...
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...