admin on February 11th, 2010

Ola! We are alive!
Completely snowed in, who would have thought it, French Riviera covered in show. Our camera kicked the bucket, so you’ll have to believe me on this one. Loads of snow, and still falling!
All is well, we’ve done a couple of regattas, Yulia did a Day Skipper course, I did my RYA Shorebased [...]

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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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