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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Across the North Sea

As we mentioned in our last update we were planning to head to the Netherlands early April but we did not leave Burnham until the 12th April. We had number of problems to deal with before we could leave. Some were minor such as the diesel heater switch that fell apart in Graham’s hand. More seriously the new sail sliders would not pass freely over the gate on the mast as the battens had sliders with outer wheels. A number of phone calls later and it became obvious that an off the shelf solution did not exist. Graham drew up a plan for a new gate cover to be made… Read More

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