I am so lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the country.
8 years ago
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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 My custom for many years has been to post to my websites (no longer active) and to my ...
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Keyhaven - The two neighboring sailing clubs seem from across the saltings. On the left Hurst Castle SC and on the right Keyhaven YC. Both are a great place to sail...
1 day ago -
The Van de Veldes: Greenwich, Art and the Sea - My last art post was about the simply awful Hogarth exhibition at the Tate, which was just terrible, having no interest in art or Hogarth or historical ...
1 year ago -
A fluid life - Almost two years ago I was standing on our station platform, nervous and masked, heading for eight days quarantine in Yorkshire before starting on my five ...5 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....
6 months 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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The stand is finished. It didn't take as long as I was expecting - which means all the plans I have listed for occupying myself during ... -
Southpool Creek is a lovely 2 mile jaunt from the busy Salcombe fairway. A ria (flooded ancient river valley) of farmed hills and shorelin... -
A quick winter project is a second galley box for Arwen. The first galley box project can be found here https://arwensmeanderings.b... -
The two galley boxes alongside each other for the first time. Slightly different heights and widths for various reasons which I won't b... -
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 ...
2 comments:
Hi Steve,
Beautiful location and photos. Particularly like the photos of the little hawk(?) in the previous post. Would love to be able to visit that part of the world again. Was supposed to be in France now but stuck in Aus. Have been enjoying your ‘Arwen’ sailing videos. I have just bought a 50+.year old timber Heron sailing dinghy (same age as me) to get back into sailing. Love the honesty and humility of your blog. Helps me to not be so tentative and to give things a go. Stay safe and enjoy the rest of your trip.
Terry
Hi Terry. Good on you. A heron should be plenty of fun. The hawk is a kestrel and this one didn't mind me getting up real close on the rock face opposite. Glad the videos are enjoyed. Good luck with the heron....have fun. Think things through, have back up plans, start gently......take care now
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