After a quiet night on anchor, Joe and I got a lift to the beach early by Islay and we headed into Weymouth to find a marine engineers. We were in luck and a very nice guy gave us some exhaust gasket and told us where Halfords was for the Read more…
<should this go on 28th?> After a beautiful sunset we got treated to a harbour porpoise feeding near a neighbouring yacht. They need to eat 10% of their weight eat day and feed constantly , consuming around 3000 small fish a day. After a calm night at anchor we awoke Read more…
While doing the breakfast dishes I suddenly looked up to see a naked Stew jumping into the water. Apparently he’d dropped his sunglasses overboard, and didn’t want to get his wallet wet, so took his trousers off before jumping in! I would have taken the wallet out instead, but each Read more…
With no wind and lots of rain we made the most of the day and carried on with the diesel bug investigation. Cleaning the tanks had helped massively but we were still having issues with one engine at low revs. Joe disconnected and cleaned each fuel line, finding the primary Read more…
The wind was strong and the sea state calm so we set out early to make the most of the great conditions. We had to motor back an hour to just off Hastings and launched our 9m and 11m kites. We are getting better at this now, using the dinghy Read more…
After 3 days in Dover we were eager to get kiting again. We left the marina in light fog and just enough wind to fly our biggest kites, but the forecast was for it to increase so we were hopeful. It was patchy but we were making great progress over Read more…
Only 6 Miles to go to turn the corner on the East coast and start the South Coast, but it was proving a difficult distance to knock off. Today the forecast was for good winds from the NE. However, nestled in our protective harbour at Ramsgate, it was impossible to Read more…
Sea Paling was one of the coolest places we stayed, at least from an engineering perspective. As part of the sea defences 9 man-made reefs have been built ontop of a pre-existing sand bar to help stop errosion. The first 4, built in 1995, stand 2.8m above high water and Read more…
After an unsuccessful attempt in the morning, where only Islay had managed to get out, we went for a wander down the beach to explore. You could see large sections where the cliff had erroded, it looked like giant lava flows of red and grey mud/clay had slid down to Read more…
A rolly night at anchor off Holme, so we took it in turns to check the anchor every hour. By 4am it was low water and we were sheltered behind sand bars and could get some sleep. At 11:00 the wind started to fill in, light at first but growing Read more…