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

Sunday 14 November 2010

Here is a video of Kevin with the last sail of his season on board his navigator Slip Jig. He's sailing on the Chesapeake bay in Maryland and wow doesn't it look great. I have always liked the videos of Slip Jig - interesting camera angles - well thought out.

http://70point8percent.blogspot.com/2009_07_01_archive.html

He woke up with frost on the windshield and a forecast that was clear skies high of 60 degrees F, small craft advisories, wind NE 15 knots with gusts to 20. What really happened was 10-12 from the SE and the wind shifted to the S in early afternoon to less than 5, temp on the water was mid 50's in the afternoon.
enjoy the video which can be found at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McBMPcfXhvs

I'm still waiting for my last sail of the season - like Kevin - I'm waiting for the right forecast!!!!!

Steve

2 comments:

Mark said...: Hi Steve, I like your blog. You are however using my www.in2clicks.com picture of the Cornish Crabber regatta which you should attributed to In2clicks and include a embedded link back to my site.

Thanks,

Mark Jago.
Webmaster.
www.in2clicks.com; 16 November 2010 at 15:06
steve said...: Mark an oversight on my part sincere apologies - where possible I always attribute copy right in photos - but yours came up on google not via your home site - I've corrected the oversight - once again my apologies - glad you like the site

steve; 16 November 2010 at 21:35

Arwen's meanderings