Crane barge off Angola Still offshore Angola, but on another boat, and another oilfield, some 200 kms further North West and now in 2000 metres of water. This field is not yet in production. A huge crane barge (see photo 1) supported by a number of smaller boats, like...
Offshore operations The boat quest has rather come off the boil lately. Have not had time to do any boating, looking at boats or writing about boats. I have been concentrating on earning the money to buy our dream boat. Which is why I am sitting on a tug boat off...
Still no nearer to getting our boat. Have been looking again on the internet. There are a few interesting boats for sale on the Dutch website – http://www.botentekoop.nl/ Cannot do much about them at the moment, still being in Cape Town. However, I will be in UK...
Our boat on the Nivernais – 40 hp And the other dilemma that follows, is how much power do you need? Again, this depends on where you want to go and what you want to do. If you are going to stick to the relatively slow flowing waters of the canals in the UK and...
Watching the wake There is something mesmerising about watching the wake of a speedboat streaming out astern. Until you remember the fuel bill! This picture was taken from the twin engined motor cruiser we hired in Croatia a few years back. We had two weeks cruising...
Sailing in the Sporades The first boating holiday Karen and I did together was a week’s sailing in the Greek Islands. We chartered a 37 ft Sun Oddysey yacht at Skiathos in the Sporades. I have done quite a bit of boating before, as well as a few sailing holidays...
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.