Month June 2015

Took over boat on Friday, spent Saturday “doing things”. drove to Fambridge on Sunday then jumped on a train straight back to port Solent. Pub dinner Sunday night in ” the Alec Rose. Pottered around on Monday after being lifted…

Departing Dover 06:00UTC towards Fambridge Eta 17:00UTC Alternates Ramsgate and Burnham Forecast – Inshore North Foreland to Selsey Bill; there is a strong wind warning. W or SW 4 or 5 occasionally 6 until later. Slight occasionally moderate. Fair. Good…

Quick update Pleinair was relaunched early this morning,  so early we’d only had time for one coffee Happily the engine started and ran well as we motored round to her berth.  Breakfast ashore was followed by a sort out below…

I had a little job to do at Fambridge this morning so Tony didn’t rush to get away from Port SolentWe meet up at Fambridge about one and caught the twenty past two train. Four hours, give or take, and…

Pretty much a day of little progression, woke up at half three, and I mean woke up, so made coffee and had a walk around the marina. Fitted the switch designated for stealth mode, had several cups of coffee more…

Today started off pretty much like all normal days, up before the crack of sparrow parp. Rather surprisingly I slept pretty well once I’d got used to the noise coming from outside. Two coffees and I made a start on…

Well the survey went ok, considering the age of the boat. Biggest thing to come out of it was the survey showed that there was a case for osmosis, although being a Sadler she’s going to show up wet on…