Sunday, early evening
Labor Day tomorrow back home
Cheers,
For all of you who had no clue about August Pugin, here’s the story.
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Augustus Charles Welby Pugin
The small office at the Ramsgate Marina had two brochures related to Augustus Pugi…
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Augustus Charles Welby Pugin
Passage to Ramsgate
Good Morning!
It is a lovely sunny, windy day here in the Ramsgate marina. DoraMac looks like a floating laundry with clothes hung both sides of the stern and some on the bow. Randal has declared a holiday for himself after spending …
Morning in Eastbourne a lovely seaside town.
Cheers!
So, we’re almost in London, but not quite. We will spend tonight and tomorrow night here in Ramsgate and then move on to an anchorage about 44 miles from London. We have to be in London around the middle of the day because …
A time of boat work, learning the locks, and wonderful people
Hello,
It has been a really busy two days here in Eastbourne. Chart-plotter worked on again and our fuel tanks cleaned. But the atmosphere here is great and everyone just so friendly. Tomorrow we leave bright and early, or foggy and e…
West Meon with Steve and Valerie
Hi
The fuel guys came at eight and are just finishing up for the day now at 5 PM. They will return tomorrow to finish up and put all of the tanks back together with some new bolts and such. We will remain at the work dock to avoid mov…
Cherbourg Part 2
Hi All,
We had the quickest passage from Gosport to Eastbourne thanks to the favorable current that pushed us all of the way. We actually arrived hours before we expected. It was a lovely sunny day and the seas were relatively …
Cherbourg, France part 1
HI,
Had a lovely day with cruising friends Steve and Valerie. We’d last seen Valerie in Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia many years ago and Steve more recently, but also years. No matter, we just picked up from where we’d left off. They li…
In England
Hi All,
“Two countries separated by a common language” is what we’ve heard several times. But so far we can understand everything everyone has said. Even when they speed talk like the guys in the phone shop because phone shops …
Passage from Brest to Cherbourg
Bonjour
It has been a long two days. We left at daylight from Brest Tuesday and arrived about 11 AM this morning in Cherbourg. I had to jump off the boat and tie us up but that’s much less scary than the first time I had to d…
Arrived in Cherbourg
Bonjour
Arrived in Cherbourg this morning about 11 am. Randal had picked a spectacular weather window so it was smooth cruising. And we even hit 12.7 knots our fastest speed ever thanks to currents going our way. Of course late…
