Author: James Tomlinson

3rd October My little Grandson out on the water for the first time! And what a better way aged three than in my childhood boat ‘Audrey’!  A Pearly Miss bought … Continue Reading →

26th September Out with Doc again Heading out towards Roughs Tower 27th September A day at anchor in The Stour rafted to ‘Tuesday’ 28th September Back to Orford Coming out … Continue Reading →

14th September 15th September Going to find the Doc and ‘Tuesday’ in Pyefleet so a sail down to the Colne against a spring tide.. And anchoring with ‘Tuesday’ in Pyefleet … Continue Reading →

6th September Last Thursday we sailed from Orford to Shotley in the company of lots of Orford cruisers.  ‘Sanderling’ Migs and Jonny, ‘Cornelia’ Chris and Caroline, ‘Caveat’ David and Jill, … Continue Reading →

13th August This morning our neighbour hit us hard while trying to reverse out of the berth next to us. Loud voices had me out on deck just in time … Continue Reading →

2nd August We are in Cuxhaven in a good berth. I had supper with Claus and Christiane. Their boat entered the lock at Kiel at the same time as us … Continue Reading →

28th July We arrived in Korsor Marina at 1725 BST. The wind finally died from the S late yesterday evening and early this morning it was a fresh N Westerly. … Continue Reading →

20th July We departed Mandal at 2100 BST yesterday evening. At 1500 BST we arrived in Hirtshells, Denmark. It was quite a tiring sail. There were lots of very attentive … Continue Reading →