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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.…
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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…
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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:…
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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…
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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…
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We’re Off to France!
First leg of the journey to get from our home in Crewe to somewhere near the ferry port in Dover. Rang a few campsites en route bit all fully booked for the bank holiday weekend. One kindly advised us to stop in a lay by near Folkestone so that’s where we ended up tired after…
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Rear Towball Hitching Guide
Based on the sucess experienced with the front hitching guide I now turn my attention onto how to bring the guide built for the front towball to the rear towball the main problem being the towball type is different I.e it is a swansneck bolted between two vertical flanges. I’m not going anywhere near modifying…
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Hitching Guide
Today I spent an hour or two making a trailer hitching guide. Tarka has been in and out of the summerhouse this last couple of weeks and each time I hitch up there’s a frustrating period of misalignment, too far left too far right not forward enough too far forward it’s a real pain in…
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Oiling mizzen and spars
Mizzen getting oiled today. Leather bearers getting a lathering in neatsfoot oil. Race is on to get ready for France.
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