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New Year, New Home, New Horizons
The latter half of 2025 spoiled by back injury, and subsequent relapse in October left me thinking I’ll need to make some drastic adjustments in lifestyle. So be it. The watchword being ‘downsize’. Smaller house, smaller boat, smaller car, smaller garage etc. We have now sold our house and moved I to our new home. Read more
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Hiatus
I took a break from activities recently starting from June this year when I suffered a back injury whilst cycling. This caused a herniated disc in my back that pressed onto nerves in my spine resulting in excruciating pain and loss of mobility. I had been bed ridden for four weeks, than gradually started to Read more
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Menai Straits June 2025
Two weeks after SDG and I’m ready to go for another short sailing experience this time the DCA rally in North Wales. I’ve sailed here in Menai Straits once in a 42ft Beneteau during my Competent Crew RYA course in 2017 and again in a Wayfarer dinghy in 2019 the latter being a bittersweet experience: Read more
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Rear Bumper Rethink
The rear bumper was a pain to remove and replace, 8 u-bolts held on by 16 nylock nuts took a while to manage off and on again, partly because I only carried a wheel brace and adjustable spanners. I am beginning to really loathe using adjustables they always seem to go out of adjustment and Read more
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Semaine De Golfe 2025
This was our first SDG experience. We found a warm welcome on arrival after a very long road trip. We chose the Dover-Calais ferry crossing which meant splitting the journey into three legs to be able to drive the nearly 700 miles, breaking the journey up with a stop over in Kent and another somewhere Read more
Small Boat Voyages
Adventures of a David Moss Sea Otter 18
This weblog is intended primarily to keep a record of events and processes surrounding the David Moss Sea Otter 18 named Tarka.
Small Boat Voyages 