After an eventful 4 days sail we have moored up in Dartmouth! It is a fantastically beautiful place, the marina setting is very picturesque.
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The point of this was to:
Finally start our adventure!
Check out what’s going to break after a few days of hard sailing
So back to work for the last few days, [...]
1 month visitor mooring in Brighton - GBP 900
1 month visitor mooring in Camaret (across the channel) - GBP 160
I’ll report back on what the 740 pounds doesn’t buy you in Camaret. Both are pontoon moorings. Crazy.
All of the arrangements at work have been completed, I am free to go. The Admiral has another few weeks to work, so we will have to leave the boat in France for a while, so that we can come back, do the last few days at work (my last day is the 16th of [...]
I’ve been relatively lucky the last few years, or perhaps ’successful’ is a better word, at persuading The Admiral that hot water on the boat is just ‘never gonna happen’. Several reasons:
It takes a tremendous amount of energy to get it warm/hot.
You end up wasting a lot of water before you get to the hot [...]
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