Autumn Cruise Day 6 and 7

Although our original plans had been to head for Southwold as our prime target for the week, with Shelagh needing to be home on Sunday and the predicted foul weather that the forecasts were showing it was decided to head…

Autumn cruise Day 4 and 5

After the disastrous start to the week ,a day of rest, in which I ached like I hadn’t ached for a long time, day 3 (Tuesday) was a nice pleasant respite of doing absolutely nothing. Day 4 started like any…

Autumn Cruise Day 2 Disaster 2

I don’t know why but it seems that this holiday is fated before it starts, as you know, yesterday was a bit of a disaster, read on to find out what went wrong today. So, the day started like all…

Autumn cruise. Day1 Disaster1

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…

And it ended thus!!!!

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…

Easter Break

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…

2017 So Far

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…

Bank Holiday Break, August 2015 The week before

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…

Bank Holiday Break, August 2015 (the weekend before)

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…