2015 end of season
I am writing this final 2015 blog entry at home as we prepare for Christmas. We returned from Germany in late September by rail, and have now had a […]
Author Archives: Jane and Robin
The Baltic at last
And so into the Baltic…… The Kiel Canal was uneventful apart from a bit of an incident in the lock at the Elbe end when, mysteriously, the engine refused […]
The North Sea And German Bight
It’s not often that I get positive comments on my fashion sense……. I was wearing a T Shirt which one of our kids gave me for Christmas. The slogan on […]
Inland Holland
We decided to take in some of the inland waterways of Holland on our trip north. There is an established route across the country with lifting bridges, which allows sailing […]
Brighton to Breskens
May was busy for us. We had agreed to pack-up our jobs at the end of the month, which involved a certain amount of hand-over and generally extraditing ourselves from […]
What have we been doing all Winter/ Spring?
Since our last post we have been preparing the boat so we could set off this summer. We started with what seemed like a fairly modest list of extra equipment […]
Impressions so far. Grey Wanderer and the equipment we chose for her.
WARNING…Contains technical detail which may be of limited interest to non-sailors ! After the first 2 month’s of continuous use the boat has really exceeded our expectations in most areas. […]
The Channel Islands and home
We left the bustle of St. Helier after extraditing ourselves from the usual huge raft of boats that a fill the spaces between the visitor’s pontoons at holiday time. It’s […]
Back in the English Channel
Our Friends Les, Sheila and Richard flew out to join us in Brest. It was great to have some company after doing the first leg by ourselves. Brest has a […]
Les Sables to Brest
We hit lucky with the weather on the first leg up the west coast, and made excellent progress. Our first stop was at the beautiful Ile d Yeu where we […]
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