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

Friday 5 April 2013

Occasionally.........

"Stacey" our 1971 motovespa 125 super sneaks onto the blog. I just passed my CBT test and am slowly getting out and about on the vespa.

Here are two films of this morning's outing

Steve




2 comments:

Joel Bergen said...

Those were fun! What a lovely area you live in. I like those one lane cobblestone roads. Thanks for the armchair vacation.

steve said...

It's the barbican, one of the oldest areas of Plymouth. Some of the area survived the bombing of WW2.
(Although we keep unearthing old bombs. Last year the same digger driver hit two separate bombs within the same week. It made the national papers! Used up his nine lives as well!
The Mayflower steps are found here where the Pilgrim fathers sailed for some new world other side of the pond! It also has he citadel, one of our Royal Marine bases, who are of course, and rightly so, the best fighting force in the world, in the bet navy in the world. But then we are all biased in Plymouth.
Steve