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...
Map showing Canal de Nivernaise area Back to the French recollections. I have been somewhat pre-occupied with buying Shangri-La, as you may have noticed. This is part 5 of some recollections of our canal boat holiday on the Canal de Nivernaise in 2008. I think...
Shangri-La 2 – really our boat this time Its starting to sink in – we have a boat! I have been very quiet the last few weeks, as the last time I leapt prematurely into print, I might have jinxed things as the deal fell through. But now, we have had...
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.