by Patrick | Feb 3, 2013 | France, Other |
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...
by Patrick | Dec 6, 2012 | Other |
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...
by Patrick | Dec 4, 2012 | Other |
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...
by Patrick | Jul 24, 2011 | Other |
Last view of Bergen This was our last view of Bergen! Idylic – flat seas and yachts dotted on the horison. That was a few days ago. Now we are in the middle of the North sea and have had 2 days of pretty horrendous weather – calming down now though. Lone...
by Patrick | Jun 6, 2011 | Other |
In the North Sea Back in Cape Town after my trip in the North Sea on a seismic survey boat. In a previous post I showed us crew changing by be swung around from a crane. This time the crew changes are done using RIBs (Rigid Inflatable Boats). Also involves be hoisted...
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.
