View from our present house in Cape Town Belated wishes for 2013. I have been pretty quiet of late, mainly because I haven’t been doing any Waterway Wandering of any sort at all. What we HAVE been doing is selling our house in Cape Town, and buying a...
Roggebaai Canal – Cape Town Most people have heard of the V and A waterfront in Cape Town, but how many know there is a navigable canal and a lock as well? It’s only a small canal but it does exist. The canal was built to connect the foreshore area in Cape...
Shangri-La in shed for winter Been a bit quiet on the blog lately I am afraid. We have been furiously busy doing house repairs since we returned to Cape Town in October, and thus not much waterway wandering. Shangri-La (2nd from left in pic) is safely wintered in a...
Shangri-La after a clean and polish I am back in Aberdeen at the moment, but I spent the rest of the week in Zwartluis working hard on Shangri-La. The new propellor shaft that had been supplied was rejected by the yard as it was also slightly out of true. It would...
Smaller Molenkruiser I haven’t posted in a while now, I know. But I think I have a good reason. Ive been hot on the search for our boat. When Karen and I returned to UK from SA last month, we made a detour to Belgium to look at a couple of boats. It...
My love of boats goes back to my early years when I went on holiday with my parents to Knysna in the Cape.
We stayed at a hotel on stilts, and I played in rowing boats and little motor boats on the lagoon.