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Channel Islands trip - Alderney to Jersey
Premium sleep achieved! Asleep by 2130, didn’t wake til 0700 and didn’t get out of bed until 0730. I slept like the proverbial baby, soothed by the gentle rocking of the boat. The sun was shining, the skies were blue and the wind light. A beautiful way to start the day. …
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Channel Islands trip - Lymington to Alderney
Well I didn’t really have an early night as I’d hoped, finishing yesterday’s blog at 2300. Hugo came in just as I was finishing, having had a late catch-up with his best man, a decision that would haunt him later. With everyone else volunteering to get up to leave at 0300, I decided to keep out of the way and stay in my warm sleeping bag. In the end with the clanging around, and engine noise, followed by chop as we exited the Solent, I don’t think I actually slept but at least got some rest. I got up at just after 0400 to see the Needles starting to disappear into the distance and the sun beginning to rise an hour or so later. …
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Channel Islands trip - Cowes to Lymington
This week we’re off for a trip with Salty Sailing across the channel to the Channel Islands. The trip is one we wanted to do in order to gain experience crossing the channel before doing it on our own. …
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SOLD: Tern GSD S00 for sale
Update: I’ve sold my GSD. Happy that it’s gone to a family who can make good use of it. Sad to see it go. …
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Newtown Creek - a solo mission
Time for a confession. It’s been a ridiculously long time since I took Lucice (our Sadler 26) out for a sail. The last time Elpie and I tried, we had a nightmare getting off the dock. Embarrassingly caught out by a strong ebb tide and Lucice’s reluctance to go backwards in a straight line to begin with. We decided not to continue. This time though, I was sensible, I waited for the slack water just before high tide, which would also give me the Solent current to carry me west to Newtown Creek once I exited the marina. …
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10 Things I learned in Mexico
It’s the last day of our trip to Mexico. We sailed from La Cruz to Mazatlán, then spent seven nights in Hotel Raices de Mar. This post is a list of 10 things I’ve learned on the trip. Not the only things, but the things that come to mind as I sit with my partner in crime at the Sky Bar at the Observatorio. High upon one of the hills in Mazatlán, drinking Aperol Spritz in the sun, watching Turkey Vultures soar above us on the thermals. …
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Mexico Day 7
Woke at 0730 after distintly less good sleep than the previous night. Still feeling ok though and as is now traditional Dewey was making coffee. Reinvigorated by said coffee, I wrote up the last bit of yesterday’s blog sitting in the sun - which rapidly changed to dense fog as the moist sea air was blown onto land. This should burn off in an hour or two if the prevoius days are any guide. …
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Mexico Day 6
Woke at 0700 after 8.5hrs sleep. The sun is shining and Dewey is making coffee. I feel goddamn fantastic! Elpie makes a call home to talk to Ed who’s struggling to change his tickets to Malaysia to the right name - he’d given Eddie as his first name. I hope he can get it changed, the booking agent want him to cancel and re-book, but he’d only get 25% of the money back from cancelling and likely the next flight would be 4x more expensive. …
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Mexico Day 5
My 0000-0200 shift passed without drama. The sky’s were dark and my vision a little sleep blurred but still able to make out a tiny bit of bioluminescence in the boat’s wake. Handed back over to Elpie and went to bed. …
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Mexico Day 4
Up at 0600 to visit the heads and then go on deck to see the last of the sunrise. Nature provided again with Pelicans making optimal use of ground effect and the daily whale show taking place. …
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