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With all the Covid19 issues surrounding life at the moment, time on the water is either restricted through not even being allowed or being allowed but not with others! I’ve trying to arrange a trip out with a couple of very good friends who in fairness don’t want to go for miles as they would […]

Denis is a good friend that skippers a Lagoon 62 and has been back in Cyprus for a couple of weeks and although we managed to get down to the boat for a first look we haven’t been able to get out until today. The weather forecast didn’t look very good at all today but […]

Having been in France now for ten days we are ready in ourselves to leave and we have done most if not all of the jobs I felt we needed to do before taking on a 1500Nm tips. There are some things we haven’t managed to get fixed or ready but we have mitigated them […]

We’ve been doing a few recce runs through the supermarkets to see what we want to eat and came across some ambient temperature TV dinners and although we don’t have a TV we thought because these are cook in simmering water they seemed worth trying. We’ve now tried two which one can only say were […]

We’ve been having a few issues with finding places to eat since we have been here because of two main issues, firstly we are in the period when this area of France have traditionally taken holidays so quite a few places are closed because of that but the second reason is this bloody Covid19 as […]

The radio is indeed a valuable piece of equipment not only to be able to call people but because it has AIS (Automatic Identification System) which is a real safety boost as it gives us the heads up when another ship is in the area all built in. The beauty of this and other onboard […]

I’ve mentioned that “The Box” held some safety kit such as the New VHF radio which I started fitting today but will tell you more when it is completed, Lifejackets which I’ve put together today and shown Barry how they work and where we will store them for easy access but I’ve needed to buy […]

As mentioned in an earlier post we have a need for a means of charging the batteries that isn’t running the engine as we only have a diesel tank of some 30 litres and even though we are going to add to that with portable cans we just can’t carry enough to make it possible. […]

We wanted the box to arrive on Monday but we had pickup issues in the UK and so the expected delivery seemed to be pushed to Thursday which I have to say wasn’t impressive but yesterday we were told it had arrived and Thierry which was a great relief and so thank you Daniel from […]

We wanted to be out of here by Friday but because of the “The Box” delay and the tiny issue of a “Mini Mistral” coming through at the weekend our departure will be pushed until at least the beginning of next week but as we wait we also start looking at what we can eat […]