"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..

Monday, 25 June 2012

Cowes "raid"... Part 2.. "Passage plan"

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..passage plan he laughingly called it... ..being a sailor almost pathologically linked by some kind of marine strength, high tensile, stainless steel (316 'natch) umbilical to Chichester Harbour I don't own an almanac...  so rough order navigation only following... ...what do...

Sunday, 17 June 2012

Prinstead and Thorney...

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yee gods it's been a windy summer....   ...first time out since the run to Portsmouth Harbour over two weeks ago! Wind, rain, more wind, been hideous...   to be honest the wind wasn't exactly light today but I was getting fidgety so went anyway... This beautiful thing went...

Monday, 4 June 2012

Lifejacket servicing..

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Not mine... other lifejacketsare available  A couple of weeks ago I took my life in my hands and serviced my elderly and venerable life jackets... I'd originally been given four of them  by my...

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