Special Edition – One week sailing in Vancouver Island

It’s been 2 years since we returned home after our adventures on Island Girl. We have settled back into life as land lubbers and found time for several trips to explore different parts of Europe and places nearer home in England. This summer we had the opportunity to visit America and Canada. Some friends in Canada had invited us to their son’s wedding in the Rocky Mountains. They are not sailors (yet) but they really wanted to try sailing in Vancouver Island. Were we up for it? Of course! it was an opportunity too good to miss. We arranged a call with them and talked through the realities of life… Read More

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Island girl continues her adventure without us.

Things have happened quickly this month. The adventure has turned full circle and I am writing this in my garden as I did one of my first posts. The garden has grown without us. After a week at Ramsgate we headed to the Medway towns. Gillingham cannot claim to be one of the prettiest town in the county but the weather was good and the park by the river had an outside swimming pool found good trade in the warm summer weekend. Chatham was once a thriving naval dockyard. Graham recalls a trip there as a young boy and visiting the ships and going on board a submarine with his… Read More

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Closing Chapters of this Adventure

We left Breskens on a warm sunny day, the winds were light but the current was in the right direction so we sailed and drifted along the coast for a few hours shadowing a Dutch boat going the same way. Finally the wind died completely and we put the engine on for the last few miles. The Dutch boat soon followed suit. After 9 weeks we crossed the border and we took down our Dutch courtesy flag and replaced it with a Belgium flag. We approached Blankenberge to find a dredger was working in the channel. This made the entrance interesting as it was narrow and the dredger was working… Read More

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