"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..

Saturday, 29 October 2011

Looks like I've run out of time....

By 09:35 1 comment
....to get to that 200 mile target I set myself for this season... only 7 miles off it but "Papillon" comes out of the water this weekend (Sunday) for the winter lay up, so no time for sailing... ...I'll be going down today to take sails off,  stow the boom, and fit the mast crutch, then tomorrow...

Wednesday, 19 October 2011

Monday, 17 October 2011

Prinstead perambulate..

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...sometimes you can take alliteration far to far..   ...to be totally honest I wasn't expecting much when I set out; if I'm totally honest, if it wasn't for the fact that this was the penultimate opportunity for a sail this year, I'd probably have stayed at home and got on with some other stuff...

Saturday, 8 October 2011

Round the Island ... Redux!

By 18:37 2 comments
So yesterday the guys and I got together for another attempt at the Round the Island trip that we had all so looked forward to on the race day earlier this summer.. Brilliant day had by all, but a long one, and only four of us as one of the Dave's had to duck out due to work commitments, still the...

Monday, 3 October 2011

Emsworth Beacon amble..

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"Amble" indeed in the winds we had on Sunday... couple that with the hottest October weekend since records began, a huge spring tide, and it was "fairly busy" in Chichester Harbour with not a lot of people except the dinghy's going anywhere fast! Lovely to get out but but it really was only for...

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