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Life in the Canaries
By Ewan | November 10, 2008
So we’ve made it to the canaries, and have spent the last week settling into life in Las Palmas.
Daily routines revolve around working through jobs on the boat, finishing off the bits and pieces we didn’t quite get around to in the UK, adjusting systems and making general improvements - like fitting more lights - low [...]
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It´s getting warm!!
By Duncan | November 1, 2008
Well we promised a media filled update next, filled with photo galleries and videos….and after almost a week in Madeira, erm, well, we haven’t really gotten around to doing loads of website work (though no doubt as you have all noticed there is one new photo gallery available). However, generating raw information in the [...]
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1st landfall made!
By Duncan | October 18, 2008
Firstly apologies for the delayed update - we made it into Spain 2 days ago, and have been a mixture of drunk and hectically working on the boat since. We are about to set sail again and head out round to Portugal and then to Madeira in an hours, so just a quick update [...]
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Just about ready to go!!!
By Ewan | October 11, 2008
First of all, apologies for the lack of entries for some time - as you can probably imagine things have been v. busy.
The short version is that we’re just about ready to go. Some final packing and readying tomorrow first thing and we’ll be on our way out of Poole harbour which has been a [...]
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Heavy weather sailing - drogues and para-anchors
By Duncan | August 12, 2008
Plan for the worst and hope for the best - probably the best basis on which to plan long ocean voyages. While hoping for 15-20 knots of wind at TWA of 140 degrees, we do need to plan for conditions of 40+ knots of wind and serious seas, so onto the ‘fun’ task of [...]
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The Launch…
By Ewan | August 9, 2008
After all the hard work on the hull and the underside, we’ve finally managed to hide it all our mistakes and put the boat in the water, stepped the new mast (put it in the boat), connected the new rigging and moved the boat to it’s home for the next few months in Poole.
As ever [...]
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The week of progress…
By Ewan | July 23, 2008
Faced with the never ending jobs list we decided a full frontal assault was the way forward. Weekends here and there just wasn’t getting through the list quickly enough.
So Duncan and I took the week off, with the intention of craking through a few of the jobs, and the ambitious aims of getting the boat [...]
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Do we need a watermaker?
By Duncan | July 13, 2008
The question of a watermaker is proving quite vexing. On the one hand they are very useful, especially where ports either don’t have fresh water or the water they do have is a bit dodgy, especially in and around some of the Pacific Islands. On the other side they aren’t cheap, don’t have a [...]
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The anchor conundrum
By Duncan | July 11, 2008
First of all, welcome to the new Blog bost category of kit choices. Here we will look at our dilemma’s and (hopefully) we can generate some discussion via the comments module below, which will save us some time in research and provide a useful resource for people planning similar voyages.
So, onto anchors. We [...]
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The never ending jobs list…
By Duncan | July 8, 2008
It’s been a while since the last update, however we have been busy. As this project continues I am coming to truly understand why boats are alway referred to as women, for she is demanding all my time and money, requires constant attention and TLC and repays this all with an ever growing list of [...]
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