Joel, my friend, enjoy.
Steve
Steve
8 years ago
About Me
- steve
- A welshman displaced to wonderful Plymouth in SW England; a novice sailor, motorhomer and boat builder with a passion for all things to do with the sea. Follow my journey as I learn to sail Arwen, grappling with charts, tide tables and passage planning so that I can become 'a dinghy cruiser' And by the way, just occasionally, little snippets about our travels and adventures. Subscribe on this blog and at www.youtube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy for videos about dinghy cruising. I look forward to hearing your comments, tips and thoughts.
My Blog List
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Bill’s Small Sailboats - The Future - Regular readers will be aware of the lack of recent articles. My custom for many years has been to post to my websites (no longer active) and to my ...
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Velocette - This looks like a Velocette MAC, a 350cc single cylinder which was produced from 1933 through to 1960 This model looks like one of the last circa 1959 o...
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The America's Cup in Barcelona - I haven't posted for a long time, but it's blog anniversary day and I've recently been in Barcelona where managed to see the America's Cup, so thought...
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Waves, water and wild places - The wind was rising and the Captain called for the t’gallants to be furled. Two of us ran down the leeward deck to get buntlines and clewlines ready. At th...6 months ago
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FOR SALE - Sailing Just For Fun: Rare opportunity to own wooden gaff cutter Shoal Waters. Owner retiring. New sails. Yard trailer. Spare original sails. Ghoster sail....
1 year ago
Popular Posts
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If you search a few posts back you will see that I built a new outboard engine maintenance stand. I based it on plans off the internet but ... -
What I was aiming for was something like a cross between this……. and this...... But what I got was this………… Not... -
How do you keep busy during a lock down? During the BIG lock down in spring, I cut and constructed 35 wooden garden steps with gravel infill... -
Below you will find information to help you, should you decide you want to give it a go. There are photographs from my strip-down along wit...
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You can see the video about changing the impeller, the gear oil and the shear pin below. Below is a photographic summary of how to cha...
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Part 2 If you haven't yet read part one - access it here at https://arwensmeanderings.blogspot.com/2020/11/building-kentucky-stick-ch... -
Southpool Creek is a lovely 2 mile jaunt from the busy Salcombe fairway. A ria (flooded ancient river valley) of farmed hills and shorelin... -
I make no apologies for this. Arwen's meanderings is overwhelmingly a blog about Arwen, my John Welsford designed 'navigator'. ... -
Camp cruising up Southpool Creek A number of people has asked me for basic details about sailing in the Kingsbridge estuary e.g. wh... -
I’ve been thinking of putting a tent on Arwen but I can’t afford to get one purpose built so I’m going to have to improvise. There are two ...
6 comments:
Such beautiful yawls! You're right, very pricy at $40,000 quid or $64,500 bucks. I checked out the links you gave me, and found this vid:
http://tinyurl.com/88xz33u
Wow! To sail such beautiful and expensive yawls, under such conditions, and to do it so well leaves me in awe. I can barely consider myself a sailor after watching them. We may have some fine craftsmen at Port Townsend, but the sheer number of highly skilled sailors and the variety of beautiful boats in your country is overwhelming.
they freak the hell out of me - I once got caught in the middle of a race on the bend just up from the main town jetty - 30 came around a corner in the fairway.......belting up river; i nearly had an accident over arwen's thwarts; i closed my eyes and kept going and to this day, honest to God, I have no idea how I slotted myself through them. Every time I peeked someone was heading right at me yelling abuse or right of way! and i mean close - like 3'!!
Glad you enjoyed. remember, here in the UK (an island nation) on the south coast in the 1700's we were either farmers, smugglers, fishermen or sailors for the Royal Navy! The sea is in our blood...300 years later we are genetically programmed to be seafarers....still doesn't mean I can sail though!!!!
Steve
Oh man, I can picture that and I would have the exact same reaction! That's why I don't race. I admire the skill it takes, especially under those conditions, but it's not for me. I enjoy exploring, and I think we are a lot alike in that respect. I love sailing to places I've never been before and seeing sights I've never seen. I would love have been a part of the voyages of exploration around this area 250 years ago. I'd sign up to crew with Capt Vancouver in a heartbeat! Imagine exploring areas never seen before in a time with no gps, no charts, and no idea what was around the next bend. I admire those men more than any racer.
never really understood the need to race - can appreciate the adrenalin buzz - but I'm an explorer at heart - mountain environments; travelling through Africa; cruising along to new places along my coastline
With you on exploration of old - finished reading joshua slocum's book about his crcumnavigation and spray - mind kind of guy!
steve
Ahhh Steve. Rash words?
If I ever get round to building my Nav, I will of course bring it down to QAB and then we'll see whether you get bitten by the racing bug....
If....
Still clearing the garage, but have started collecting clamps!!
Hurrah! It's a start.
funny that - i started with collecting clamps too.....Ok I'll take you up on that......get it built and lets meet up! In meantime I too would like a clear garage - one 'stacey' the vespa is taking up all the space whilst my son focuses on GCSE's....but come the end of the exams - that vespa better make progress!! Good luck and good to hear from you. Let me know how progress goes! Stay in touch and if you need to sail a nav - you know where I am!
Steve
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