Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Tuesday, 17 August 2010

second part of day one voyage plymouth to salcombe

Hello everyone and thanks for the kind comments posted recently about my day one voyage from Plymouth to Salcombe. You can see part 2 of that day's voyage and overnight on-board camp at this link here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai9-kioRyI0

I'm just writing up my summary of day two......it is giving me much to muse over as you will see in a couple of days time when I post it.......day two didn't go according to plan........and......well frankly I've been reliving bits of it over and over again in my mind.........sometimes you make really silly decisions which you look back on and wonder how the hell you didn't apply common sense and all your mountaineering experience and skills to arrive at a safer decision.........still I did say in my lead up post to the trip about being 'cautiously over-ambitious!'

Hope you enjoy part 2 video clip of day one......there isn't much video of day two believe me so make the most of this one!

Take care

steve

Look what I got moored up next to in Salcombe - isn't she a fantastic restoration?
I know........I've shown the picture before.....but....wow! I just love this boat!

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