Getting Ready To Leave
Jane and I travelled to Les Sables D’Olonne this month to collect the boat. I went over 4 days ahead of Jane, as our youngest son was completing A-levels and […]
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She’s Afloat!
If you’ve been following us, you know that it’s been a while since we updated this blog – apologies for that – a lot of rather overwhelming events have happened […]
Nearly there…..
Just come back from our second trip to Alubat to check on progress and take down some of the gear that we will need once she is commissioned – it’s […]
The Scout Connection
As well as the sailing madness, both of us have been heavily involved with the Scouts. Having been at various times a helper, assistant and Scout Leader for the past […]
Fitting her out – General
In addition to all the fixtures and fittings that come with the boat, we needed to obtain all the extra kit needed to turn her into a fully functional long […]
Ovni 365 fitting out options
Once we had placed an order, we then had to decide which of the many options for the 365 model we should select. This was virgin territory for us as we […]
Why an Ovni?
When we sailed in the Med back in the late 80s we first became aware of French Aluminium yachts. They looked slightly outlandish to us at the time with their […]
After welding her together
Early March 2014 – She looks more like a boat now!
The pieces
These are the first pictures of the component parts of the boat from early February 2014
Our Sailing History
We met at a Yacht Club on the South coast of England in 1981, when Robin was a keen young sailor with an old and slightly tatty Sabre 27, and […]
Grey Wanderer 