It has to be said, as I write this, Tony is not a happy bunny. Our Autumn cruise so far isn’t going to plan, although I am cheered by the fact that a friendly skipper I know also appears to be having similar problems with the lack of stuff that makes one float. The story […]
As previously posted in an earlier episode, we camped on the river pontoon for friday night,as we’d planned a day out in Maldon on Saturday. Shelagh needed to visit a shop there to aquire some new jeans for work and we don’t have this particular company locally to home. Saturday We set out in the […]
Shelagh & I decamped from home on the Thursday before Easter and headed down to the boat, a longish couple of hours on the road arriving mid afternoon to find that Pleinair had been moved from her normal mooring by the marina staff. There’s a major dredging program in full swing at the moment and […]
Its been quite a while since I posted on here so here’s a little update of what’s been happening since 2015. Since the last posting things have progressed a little with SV Pleinair. To start with back in July 2016 I moved Pleinair from her river mooring to a pontoon mooring in the marina, it […]
Monday 24th August. Today was a case of shopping for the week then finish loading the car. We left home around lunchtime and headed off for the two and a quarter hr. run down to the boat, nothing spectacular in fact a relatively quick and easy run down the A1/A14/M11. As is nearly always the […]
I thought it was about time I committed myself to writing up our Bank Holiday week report. The week (well, more like ten days actually) started on Friday 21st with me meeting up with a friend of ours and setting off in convoy to Anderby in Lincolnshire to set up camp for the Barrowby […]
Read more: Bank Holiday Break, August 2015 (the weekend before)
August 28th passage plan. Depart Fambridge 11:00 Destination Bradwell marina. Eta 18:15 Panic after 2100. Alternatives burnham, or anchorage in branksfleet. Or Tollesbury marina. Weather forecast. Gibraltar Point to North Foreland. 24 hour forecast: Westerly or southwesterly 4 or 5, decreasing 3 at times. Smooth in shelter, otherwise slight. Showers for a time. Good. Outlook for the following 24 hours:
After three weeks away from the boat we took advantage of a free weekend. During Friday i loaded the car with bits and pieces required for a couple of jobs I wanted to get done, clothes and grub. Shelagh duly arrived from work at 17;30 and we set off to Fambridge within twenty minutes. Our […]
It was suggested by Shelagh that I might like to spend the week sorting Pleinair and getting her back in the water so we could start to enjoy a little boating this season. I naturally jumped at the chance and half-six last Saturday morning (18th July) I jumped in the car loaded with various bits […]