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, 11 January 2011

racking my brain..trying to remember

...where did I see on UK TV a programme about boats that had a good opening sequence showing the River Tamar and Plymouth Sound and then had a section on the river Fowey?

And then I remembered - how could I forget Dara, Griff and Rory, three of our most loved comedians here in UK - trying to go along the south west coast in a variety of boats.........




  It was the third programme they have done. The first, they rowed down the Thames; in the second they sailed Griff's boat Undina along the south coast from Thames to Southampton. 


Griff's boat 'Undina' - which I think he has now sold
featured in the TV series Three men and another boat, originally broadcast on the BBC I think

Part three finds them trying to get to the Scillies off Land's End!



Part one, two and three of this third programme are found at these websites below  - get yourself a coffee, take the phone off the hook; send the kids and wife out for a pizza in a foreign country.......kick off your shoes and relax and laugh. The rest of the programmes can be accessed at YouTube......but in the meantime - here is where I will be sailing come Easter through to September 2011

Steve
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ec5giDxlXvU&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7REWcYA4Xak&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXGtuavTU2Q&feature=related

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