Monthly Archives: June 2009

Canal du Midi April 30th- 4th May 2009

From Trèbes to Homps and back..via Carcassonne!!!

The weather forecasts were variable as the time for departure, courtesy of RyanAir, grew nearer. Would it be very wet, grey, cold and miserable, or the much better option and not the BBC choice… fine, warm and sunny.. how can all the forecasts be so different?

Being the eternal optimist [...]

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Matzah Sail 10-13 April 2009

This was the first big sail of the season, the last sail having been a shake-down of our skills two weeks previously with Robert skippering Dragonfly Too, an X-332, in East Cowes with Victor and Diana Bader Clynes as crew.  Nice boat, shame about the lack of power under engine.  Sometimes one finds interesting passages [...]

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