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Happy New Year!
Friday, 31 December 2010
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Quick visit & Christmas presents...
Went down to see "Papillon" yesterday, I usually go and see her at least two or three times a week as it's only a short detour on the cycle from my usual route to work... the difference this time was that I actually went aboard to check everything was OK down below as well. I'd spotted that one of the...
Tuesday, 21 December 2010
It's still cold...!
Bl**dy freezing in fact, so all possibility of doing any work on "Papillon" is out of the window for the time being... temperatures here in the UK have tumbled recently, and one newspaper article I read the other day mentioned that the cold weather was going to be with us until February! Still, I have...
Wednesday, 1 December 2010
It's cold!!
It's hard to believe that only 7 weeks separates this, which was the last major sail of the year,in (t)shirt sleeves.....from this....and this, which was taken this morning when the temperature was still -2' C!The UK is going through an unseasonal cold patch - we don't normally get this kind of weather...
Thursday, 25 November 2010
A nice Fantasie on eBay part 2...
Cycled past her mooring this morning on the way to work, so stopped and got some more shots of "Siva" for the Fantasie 19 owners site...Nice looking boat on a very crisp morning...
Thursday, 18 November 2010
A nice Fantasie 19 on eBay..
This looks like a nice example that Phil Brook has just found on eBay... Just down the road from me, so I'll see if I can get a bigger picture for the register on the owners website..It's also the first Fantasie I've seen with a spray hood - very plush!Only £1300 as well, which I think is reasonable...
Monday, 15 November 2010
Job Update #2
Two new items added to the job list... not major but they need doing:13. Replace bolts holding tiller - not stainless steel and beginning to rust..14. Replace nuts & bolts for the sliding hatch with s/s; currently galvanised and beginning to r...
Monday, 8 November 2010
Job update... #1
First jobs completed... loads more to do..My mother-in-law has offered to sew me up some new cushions for the cabin to replace the current one's which I think must be original...having slept on the boat on at least two occasions I can confirm you may as well lie on newspaper!Find the material - needs...
Sunday, 7 November 2010
Monday, 1 November 2010
Soo that was 2010....
Just a review in brief of my 2010 the format of which I have shamelessly ripped off from Julian's Daisy Grace website... (hey, imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right??! )Like a spider dipped in blue ink and left to wander all over Google Earth - here's where Papillon went this year - click...
Friday, 22 October 2010
Jobs to do... winter 2010/2011
I suspect this post will become a bit of a moving feast as I add and complete various items.. but here's my starter for ten....My mother-in-law has offered to sew me up some new cushions for the cabin to replace the current one's which I think must be original...having slept on the boat on at least two occasions I can confirm you may as well lie on newspaper!Find the material - needs to be waterproof...
Thursday, 21 October 2010
Chichester Harbour...
As you probably know my boat is moored in Chichester Harbour. The organisation that looks after all the administration of running the harbour (collecting dues, looking after moorings etc etc) is is known as the Chichester Harbour Conservancy [click here], and they've just released a couple of films...
Thursday, 14 October 2010
Lift out...
...and so the 2010 season comes to an end as "Papillon" was lifted out last Sunday...
Fun day, no pictures I'm afraid, but certainly action packed - and a long one for the guys who man the tractor and hoist... the boats started coming out just before lunchtime and the last one was moved at about...
Friday, 8 October 2010
Round Hayling...
Those of you who have read from the beginning of this years blog are aware that I had a slight contretemps with my mast... Not surprisingly I now have a mental block about taking it down, so this year, having also decided that the club can lift me out, I also decided to sail round to the slipway rather...
Thursday, 30 September 2010
It's not all plain sailing..
..as a matter if fact, there's been no sailing at all since the trip when I saw the seals..!
My plan as the season draws to a close (and I know there are some that sail throughout the year - but it's just too damn cold for me!) was to get as much sailing in as possible, but it seems that a windy summer is turning into an even windier autumn... When I got to the boat last Sunday it was blowing a...
Saturday, 18 September 2010
Three seals...
The season seems to be coming to an end quickly here in the UK; the evenings are getting darker earlier, and we have dew in the mornings. Last night was the coldest so far this autumn, which isn't saying a lot when compared to the sub-freezing we had last winter, but it was definitely on the "cool"...
Monday, 13 September 2010
SIBS
No sailing this weekend - beginning to miss it badly! - reason being that I was in Newbury for the day on Saturday, and at the Southampton Boat Show on Sunday
..usually we get to the show on the second weekend when it has tended to calm down a little, this year we were there on the first weekend and...
