We needed to get the hydraulics fixed on Trouper. That meant a visit to Hamble Yacht Services as they know the boat and had originally installed the hydraulics. We decided to make a long weekend out of the chore. Friday morning we set off on the early falling tide. Getting up before you’ve gone to bed, as they say in Monty Python, is not much fun but we were rewarded with a calm, warm day […]
Trouper’s home port used to be Lymington and it’s one of our favourite spots in Southern England. When we’d initially dreamed about buying a boat we said we’d keep it in one of the marinas in Lymington. Tom’s father kept his day boat, a Hawk 20, at Lymington so we used to sail regularly from Lymington across to the Isle of Wight to: Yarmouth, New Town or Cowes as day sails on the little boat. However […]
Mylor. The last stop on our Summer Cruise of Devon and Cornwall. Our first challenge, finding the channel to enter the marina. This was marked but depth of tide meant that we could only enter +/- 3hours around high tide due to a shallow area in the channel. We found the entrance due to a larger boat ahead of us. They’d slowed down. Presumably they were waiting for more tide to allow them over the shallow […]
London was pouring with rain, a thunder storm had taken out a signal box on the train line, there were no trains and it was the start of our Summer holiday. Luckily we managed to squeeze our way onto the 6:00pm train to Plymouth and only arrived one hour later than planned. Plymouth was still steaming hot. They were still enjoying the last days of the heat wave that had come crashing to a halt […]
The Southampton Boat show is currently running with the last day tomorrow. I haven’t been for years but, of course, now we have Trouper. This time we had an agenda. We wanted to find out more about: boat electronics, alternative energy sources, scout for a boat bargain and look at the new boats. Boat Electronics We looked at the B&G instruments as that would be compatible with what we already have. They had a […]
I think I’ve already said Fowey is well supplied with shops. There isn’t the variety that Falmouth offers but what it lacks in quantity it makes up in quality. Alongside the typical high street stores are a range of boutiques, galleries and food shops that makes for an enjoyable experience. The shopping street runs the length of the shore side road. There are no pavements. It’s one lane wide and cars and vans do drive […]
Falmouth shopping; the last post on Falmouth promise. There is a whole High Street of shops. Most familiar to high streets the length and breadth of the UK. I won’t cover these. I won’t cover the food or drink shops that I’ve already mentioned. I’ll just mention the few that were interesting or best in breed. Chandlers – The Bosun’s Locker Chandlery is a traditional chandlers with everything from striped shirts and smocks to shackles, flags […]
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