Our Boat

We have found a boat that we think will meet our needs for the next few years. We have purchased an Island Packet 35 “Island Girl”.  Having had a sea trial we took ownership on Friday 19th October and spent the weekend starting to sort the boat out. We have not been out sailing at the weekend but did venture out into Portsmouth Harbour to go to the fuel dock. (The picture below was taken after this trip to  prove that we got back in one piece.) The boat was launched in 1990 but is in pretty good shape, it has good living accommodation and as a long keel boat should be comfortable when making passages. We… Read More

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The hunt for a boat may be at an end

We have enjoyed the excuse over the last few months to travel around the UK looking at boats, we have even had good weather and palm trees as you can see. Almost sorry that the excuse to visit different parts of the coast and look over other people’s boats each week has gone away.  We are in the process of finalising the purchase of a boat, I do not want to say too much until the deal is finalised and the boat is ours but keep watching and we post details latter we hope that the boat will be ours before the end of the month. 

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Not all trips need to be sailing

We have just returned from the Swiss Alps. We were able to visit Lichtenstein and Austria as well as walking in the mountains and by Lake Walensee, we also had a boat trip on Lake Walensee. We were lucky with the weather having only one day with significant daytime rain despite a very bleak weather forecast for thunderstorms when we left home.  Hope you had the sound on whilst watching the video and enjoyed the cowbells!! The trip was with Oak Hall to Switzerland and we traveled with friends.  It is around 35 years since I last travelled with them, they give an opportunity for low-cost travel and also get like-minded Christians of all ages (20’s… Read More

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