Recent content by Cygnet

Thanks for all the good advice. My plan is to get to Cogolin in a couple of days and then to hop along coast as you suggest. With a twenty footer, two people can put the mast up or take it down while floating without a crane - you just have to make sure that no-one is in swiping distance...

Thanks Andrew, I've just sent an email and made a note of telephone number. Hopefully I'll sail over with my girlfriend on about the 8th Feb. I hope to show her sailing on a 20 foot boat isn't all about being thrown all over the place and sea sickness. She had 14 hours of continuous terror...

Hi Tony, The journey started in May 2002 in Torquay, to St Malo via the channel islands, through the canals to cut the corner off Brittany, down to Port Bloc and the intention was to go through the canals to the med. The reality was that I ran out of time and didn't think it feasible to leave...

Hi Andrew, Not wishing to impose to much on your offer for further info..... but! Is there any problem getting to the nearest airport (which I think is St Tropez Airport - or maybe Toulon?), or back to Nice? Also, is there anyone there who speaks English who I could call to check on...

Begging forgiveness, I'm not actually a liveaboard! The intention was good when I set sail from Torquay, but now I am back in England while my Sygnet 20 is in a marina in Toulon. I would like to sail closer to Nice, ideally Antibes, but given that I only ever manage about 4 or 5 days away...

Having sailing my Signet 20 to Port Bloc I decided that I would have it transported by road to Toulon (where it is now). For this I engaged the services of a French Naval Services company who prepared the boat for transport and then they sub-contracted the transport to another French Company...

On Easter Sunday I sailed my Signet 20 from Torquay to Dartmouth in favourable winds. We made generally between 5 and 6 knots, but with heal in excess of 20 degrees and plenty of weather helm; I could have released the main a little and steered closer to the wind, but this seemed to slow us...

I need to get myself on a VHF course pretty sharpish. The location would preferably be in the Midlands, Berkshire or the south west coast if around/on a weekend. I understand the course can normally be completed in a day. Any help on this appreciated.

Hi Adrain, Just to let you know it's not all fun - I have little sailing experience (day skipper) mainly at weekends since September last year when I bought Cygnet and a little previously. There's a fair amount of paper work to get sorted CEVNI, ICC, VHF licence, Insurance, Registration, VAT...

Like the Skull and Crossbones! The boat was kept in Brixham, but is currently out of the water at Noss. Planning to return to water on Thursday this week, and then being kept on the Dart until we depart. So far we've only only been staying on board at weekends - we still have to work during...

Thanks for note Graham, We're looking at the possibility of setting up a website - I don't know much about it myself, but I know a man who does - we're taking a laptop (need to sort out power - it requires 20V, which means converting the 12V battery to AC, stepping it up and rectifying back at...

Thanks for note Nigel, The boat is fitted with a honda 7hp outboard which charges a single 12V battery. I've fitted a retractable bracket for another outboard (Wanted advert placed) - probably 4 to 8hp to act as auxilliary power if required or if the Honda motor duffs out. As for the bike...

Hi Dave et al, Thanks everyone for all your encouraging words, generally people are so defeatist and write off any challenge to convention as being pointless, stupid and in some eyes dangerous - it's a great pity that more poeple don't have vision beyond their established comfort zones...

There's two of us going, and so far we've been using the very compact, but adequate quarter berths (or coffins as they're now known). That leaves the pointed end free for storage; useful as this is the dry end away from the main hatch. In preparation for better weather than the UK offers...

Having bought a 1975, Sygnet 20 sailing boat (called "Cygnet"), a friend and myself (Andy and Mat) are planning to leave from Torbay on 6th May 2002 (May Day!) for St Malo, use the canals to cut off Brittany, down the west coast of France and then use the canals to get to the Med. There's no...