yuri on April 14th, 2009

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, [...]

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yuri on April 14th, 2009

Victualling means provisioning. Everything on a boat has a proper name, you know, otherwise it’s chaos Stone me if I know even quarter of all the crazy words, but you can usually get by on a few dozen. Even the little rope you tie your dinghy with has a name, it’s called a ‘painter’. [...]

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yuri on April 6th, 2009

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.

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yuri on April 4th, 2009

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 [...]

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yuri on April 4th, 2009

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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yuri on April 4th, 2009

This is our first post! Hurray!

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