It didn’t take long to exhaust La Turballe and so we ventured on to L’herbaudiére for our second visit. We were shoved into a corner due to the imminent arrival of the Pen Duick’ fleet who were having an organised race weekend based at the same marina.     These beautiful boats were the design of Eric READ MORE

It was always going to be a short season so there was no need for the pantomime of obtaining French Visas to extend our 90 day allowance due to the gift of Brexit, the gift that never seems to stop giving.  Our new mooring contract is such that we are required to be absent from READ MORE

After four years of mooring at Folleux our names had eventually crawled their way to the top of the list for a contract in the water at Arzal.    We delayed carrying out the winter maintenance until April so when LJ was returned to the water we could move on down the river to her new READ MORE

With Chloe in tow, we returned to LJ at the end of July with every intention of going back out to sea and heading south.   The plan was sound plus it would give Chloe her first opportunity of a new sailing ground outside of the Solent and hopefully for her to have sight of her READ MORE