Sailing through life’s waves, always heading toward adventure

Electric or Petrol - Outboard Decisions

Whilst we have a petrol outboard on Emily, a small 5hp Tohatsu, we need an additional lighter-duty one for our little tender (Need is probably a stretch; It would be handy!) This can also double up as an auxiliary engine for our wayfarer sailing dinghy, 'Piccalilli' Both of

Fake Spring, or Real Spring?

It's feeling very spring-like at the allotment. Tulips, Snowdrops, Daffodils (And weeks!) are all starting to pop up. Only a few weeks from now, the plot will look entirely different, colourful, a nice contrast to the months of monotone of dead bindweed, woodchip and soil. I'm