Shangri La heading to the water – Karen looking on. It’s been another couple of frustrating days, but we are finally back in the water with nearly everything back working properly. Monday started off with Eric, the mechanic from de Kranerweerd coming...
Back aboard Shangri La 2 At last the 2014 cruising year has started. Mixed feelings at the moment – thrilled to be back on board, but most disappointed that not much of the work that had been promised would be done is even started, let alone finished. So we flew...
Old time sail trainer on the Ketelmeer To see part 8 click here To go to part 1 of the trip click here The next stage took us from Urk, out onto the Ijsselmeer for a short while, under Ketelbrug and into the Ketelmeer, along Keteldiep and the Ijssel River...
Shangri La berthed at Zwolle, Netherlands The trip down to Zwolle started off fine. I first took on 100 litres of diesel, mainly to help mix in the fuel additive which is necessary to prevent diesel bug. I particularly wanted this done, as the diesel on board has been...
Relaxing on the back deck Well, we never got to Shangri La this May as planned. Much too much to do regarding our new house back in Cape Town. So here I am back at sea, working. But not all doom and gloom. Great progress with the UK registry, and other certificate and...
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.