After a few days in Brighton we were ready to leave. It was really special being back in such a familiar city surrounded by so many memories and friends, but when you know you’ve got distance to cover you don’t Read more…
Chores in the morning, including Stew and Joe delving deep into the bilges to try and find why we were taking on water in Ramsgate. The wind had picked up suddenly in the night, and we had started rolling quite 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. 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. Read more…
I’ve been in contact with my old school in hopes to arrange a visit on our way past. We had a grand plan that we could kite into the beach, and walk up the tunnel that connects the school to 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. Read more…
Today is my 3Xth birthday. I celebrated by having a long hot shower, and doing the laundry. You quickly run out of clean clothes on the boat, so these are a luxury item. For Stew’s 3Xth, he was half way Read more…
We’ve been having some issues with the port engine periodically cutting out. For the last 3 days we’ve needed to clean the fuel filters each day. Not just a tedious exercise, but at ~ £20 each, replacing these daily would Read more…
There were small puffs of wind in the bay on Friday morning, but in the lulls, there wasn’t enough to even get the kite in the sky. We took this opportunity to practice kite launch and rescue with Jeremy. He’s Read more…
We left Ramsgate for the third and final time this morning, motoring to our start point approximately 8miles into the Thames Estuary. Our friend Julia who has waved us on each time we’ve passed was excited to finally see us Read more…