by Patrick | Jan 4, 2011 | Other |
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...
by Patrick | Dec 29, 2010 | Other |
Sailing in Table Bay – Cape Town The South Easter is blowing a gale here today, about 35 knots, and the forecast is much the the same for the next couple of days. Most of my friends know I would like to buy a boat in Europe, and often ask why I dont just get a...
by Patrick | Dec 27, 2010 | Other |
Anderton Boat Lift Cruising the waterways is not only wonderfuly relaxing, but can be fascinating. On the Trent and Mersey canal, we found the Anderton Boat Lift. One of the ‘Seven Wonders of the Waterways’ it is one of the only 2 working boat lifts in the...
by Patrick | Dec 26, 2010 | Other |
Marple – Lock 15 As I mentioned in the previous post, the Cheshire Ring has a lot of locks – 92 to be precise. And they come in batches. We collected our narrowboat near Congleton close to the SW end of Macclesfield, and headed off in an anticlockwise...
by Patrick | Oct 8, 2010 | Adventures, France, Other, UK |
We will be starting a one week trip on a narrowboat on the Monmouth and Brecon Canal in Wales next Friday 15th October 2010. In the meantime, here is a picture from our trip last year on the Canal du Midi in France, as we manoeuvred up a set of staircase locks. This...
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.
