"Papillon" is a Robert Tucker designed 'Fantasie 19' and my first boat.. I've been sailing since the age of 15 (when I did my RYA Part 1 and 2 at Emsworth Sailing School) so I've been on the water (but more in it) for going on 30+ years now... this blog is about our adventures together - they may be small one's (because despite the years I have little experience in boats - I was mostly windsurfing!), but they are adventures none the less..

Sunday, 19 April 2009

.. oh dear...

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... "oh dear"?? ...well on Friday I went down to check the boat was OK and found it was not on the mooring and had been moved to another one.. no idea why... quite worrying... ..the tides being what they were the first opportunity I had to get down and check the boat was Saturday morning so after...

Wednesday, 8 April 2009

Launch day...

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As promised, and requested (well one of you did!), just a few pictures of the boat post clean up and preparation... These were taken on launch day... ..which was just about perfect in terms of sun, but we could probably have done with a little more wind (ie. there wasn't any until we got to almost...

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