Beam Me Up
/
D-day has arrived. Departure day. We’ve spent five days taking apart everything we had spent three months setting up. De-rigged, unstepped the mast, stowed, padded and prepared.
Read More
‘YOU SEE, aDVENTURES ARE STUBBORN THINGS; THEY DON’T START WHEN YOU ARE READY AND THEY HANG AROUND LONG AFTER YOU THINK THEY’VE FINISHED. THE IMPORTANT THING IS THAT YOU SAY YES TO THEM’
ABI ELPHINSTONE, The Pocket elephant
Six frenchman tussle with Silver Paw's Mast
/
Unstepping a mast is supposed to be a fairly straightforward process, I’m told. It didn’t go that way for us. After a few days of preparations we thought we had it ready to hoist, but Pierre took one crank at our shrouds and shook his head...
Read MoreSt Malo & Chausey
/
Jersey is a friendly sail to France and we were lucky enough to have a bank holiday weekend, some decent weather forecast and a couple of friends. Plus we wanted to test her cruising sea legs...
Read More
