2021 Sailing Season
It’s nearly Christmas, and I’m sitting in front of the fire at home. The boat is safely ashore, and I’m looking through the boat’s log as I write this account […]
Category Archives: Fitting her out
2020
We write this at the end of the 2020 sailing season. For many of us it’s not been the best. But in the light of all the current troubles of […]
2016 Fitting-Out and Launching
This is where we get to see how our long-held ambition to base a boat abroad plays out in reality……. We decided to start our fitting-out work at the […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Grey Wanderer 