By way of an update, here’s a roundup of 2024. It has been a horrible 18 months, during which virtually nothing constructive was achieved other than a couple of coats of paint on the boat’s undersides and the mast being…

As it’s too hot to do anything that involves me being out in the sun at the moment I’ve decided to re-compile and publish the jobs list of things that need doing onboard Pleinair BEFORE I consider her ready to…

Hi All, 2021 has been an interesting year so far, in as much as I’m currently not working full time, or indeed anytime for that matter. I’ve spent the past few months on catching up with some of the jobs…

It's taken me a few visits but over the past few weeks of Pleinair being in the yard, I've been getting mucky underneath, and designing and installing a new solar arch, which is why it's Up and Under.

Although our original plans had been to head for Southwold as our prime target for the week, with Shelagh needing to be home on Sunday and the predicted foul weather that the forecasts were showing it was decided to head…

After the disastrous start to the week ,a day of rest, in which I ached like I hadn’t ached for a long time, day 3 (Tuesday) was a nice pleasant respite of doing absolutely nothing. Day 4 started like any…

I don’t know why but it seems that this holiday is fated before it starts, as you know, yesterday was a bit of a disaster, read on to find out what went wrong today. So, the day started like all…