Its raining & I am very very bored - 2008 What Plans?

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OK its a wet Monday evening, so get some uplifting music on, a decent cup of coffee & a nice glass of Laphroaig & dream & plan trips for 2008.

Shady is now in decent nick with good anti foul, new instruments, & hopefully some new sails for spring next year. I might get down early in 2008 & do some odd jobs, I do need to replace the hatch glass but that is really all that is outstanding now.

At the moment I cant get more than a couple of months on her next year because of work commitments, but she should get moved from South of France to Corsica or Sardinia - all part of slowly moving East, we will see!

So any other forumites have any plans for 2008 yet.....?????

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Oh no... the laphroaig has run out I'm reduced to Bells....heeeelp!!
 
Learn how to use the sextant I have just bought.

Think about retiring and think about making a long voyage. Trouble is I need to work to finance a voyage but if I am working I can't make the voyage. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif
 
Re: Its raining & I am very very bored - 2008 What Plans?

Tee hee, we all have those problems,
Good idea re the Sextant you will need some good books for xmas!

I have made a plan & I will stick to it - basically in 2 years I'm off.
Very definite, even thought about going back to Dubai for the two years get a nice nest egg & buy those decent sails.

Try the music & scotch option as well...it helps.

poter
 
Ditto, ditto, ditto. Its been raining/sleeting for three days here without a break. I've played Spider Solitaire a trillion times, and am now reduced to answering 'bored' postings on internet forums.

Anyway, I've had plenty of time to draw up next year's plans.

Plan A: Sail across the Pacific via Hawaii.
Plan B: Down the west coast of the Americas.
Plan C: Err, Dover to Ramsgate (again)?

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Got a mix of all of the above! Emigrate to a small island, take delivery of boat (on order). Shake down and sail.... /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 
Well its raining here too! Guatemala though so at least it's warm, 80 degrees at 11pm local time. Bit dripy though...

Plans turn left or right at entrance to the Rio Dulce depending on the wind that day we'll go to Cuba or the Pacific!

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Oh so it's been raining!

Spent the morning digging out the car from 3 feet of SNOW and the 4 feet of ICE the snow plow left at the thankfully downsloping, mercifully short driveway.

So wife says we leave in September and sail to Mexico, and then sailing west to HAWAII after the hurricane season ends at about 5 November.
6 months in Hawaii, KAUAI, mostly in HANALEI BAY I hope (of Puff the Magic Dragon fame) and the Jurrasic Park scenery) and so many fish along the reef.

Then to French Polyenesia.

This probably entails no more eBay purchaes or we'll be working till we're 100.

Boat is nearly finished, just liferaft to service. navigation gear, vhf, ssb and radar to install, wind generator to mount on pole in stern, lifelines to be added, boom to finish, test sails in the summer all over the Pacific Northwest and perhaps to Alaska. all the trim has to be made and fixed in place...

Wish I'd listened to "Go simple and go now"...
 
Bonjour! Mr Poter

What a good idea to move down to Corsica yesterday i called a port i know well to see if they might have room for a small boat.

As i suffer from a rare problem that is i come out covered in small "bumps" and start trembling in the North?? Never happens even in Deepest winter in Toulon

3 years ago i sailed along the west coast of Sardina on a voyage of exploration, what i found were small fishing villages free moorings (own anchor) good food wonderful woman (good looking) wonderful wine clear water (in winter)

I also found rich Italians (Sardinians are not Italian) with plans to turn the entire Island into one large tourist resort so nowis the time to enjoy

Im looking for a new boat my present one being badly placed just to suit Sardinia while keeping a mooring on Corsica

If all goes according well and the boats ok if you see a small cris craft with grey pealing paint faded lifting teak trailing smoke it could well be me! If you rais the forum penant we could share a glass or two of good Sardinian wine

Lternatively i may be sailing a Dragon??
 
Garibaldi

won't like you lumping Sardinia and Corsica in France.

He actually specified that when he was buried in Caprera he should be facing across Bonifacio Str watching "Italia Irredentia".

Flew over Corse Sunday- 1st signs of snow on some of the higher peaks.
 
Re: Garibaldi

Yes!What i meant was i can find a place in a marina thats not to expensive,as Sardina dosent have a lot of inexpensive marinas but a lot of small "fishing" ports a place is always handy to leave the boat safely

Have you tried that chees with worms in it? Its illegal at the moment but the Sardinians want to sell it to tourists?????

It tastes great but at first you should just take the bread offered with eyes closed as the worms are still wiggeling. The wine is really good and inexpensive! One id helped myself and eaten with eyes open they filled my 20 liter water can with wine!
 
boat 2/3 painted. Awaiting new rigging and refurbished spars, masts to be repainted. New antifoul, all new Raymarine package. So, we need a shakedown cruise in the new year, probably Feb, to ensure all is indeed well. Then cross the Atlantic in May to the Balearics for the rest of the summer, then hopefully next winter in Barca.
 
Sardinia

I left the boat at Stintino for a couple of months during 2 summers('04 & '05) - it cost me nowt and the local Guardia Costiera kept an eye on it for me.

Surrealist moment, a discussion including local roadsweeper & mates and some of the fishermen on the relative advantages of sail over power, in the local bar. 50cl of Dreher was €1.20, a cappucino €0.70. My Italian is very basic and they had no English - the results were hilarious.

No Sardinians certainly aren't (don't consider themselves) Italians. The Greeks never landed there, gave the locals the name of "stonethrowers".
 
2008 is a very big year for my wife and I, our long term plan which started 5 years ago comes into action in January, when we move aboard our boat for good.
We bought her last Nov 2006 and this year has been spent getting her sorted and sailing her to our home waters.

Come June ish we are going to take 3 to 4 months and sail round Great Britain.
We will leave from Inverness and head north for Orkney & Shetland then head west for the Hebrides and work our way slowly down the minch stopping in as many remote anchorages as possible until we eventually end up at Fort William when we will head back to Inverness and write our story with lots of pictures and paintings of our travels and title it Round Britain and see if any of the magazines will take it.

Then one more winter in Inverness, and then to Norway to start our wanderings.

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We have a similarly large year ahead.

Spent the last 12 months getting the boat ready and sailing around the Irish Sea - and come July we set off for Oz!!

Leave Fleetwood in mid July, down to the Canaries ready for a late Nov cast off across the pond, and this time next year we should be mid Atlantic.

Literally, counting down the days!!!


Jonny
 
Re: Its raining & I am very very bored - 2008 What Plans?

we decide to retire 6 years ago on our 6 ton falmouth pilot 24ft 6ins with 8 ft beam smaller is better we could afford it and have never regreted it. now live on our Colvic Watson 32 M/S such luxury like a cruise ship after little Ilsham
 
Re: Its raining & I am very very bored - 2008 What Plans?

We got away in June 2006, and by September 2007 had got to Southern France. Roaring Girl is ashore there now taking a well-earned dry out. We're land-locked till Xmas, earning a bit of dosh in the UK. On Xmas day we're flying to NZ, on a long planned exploration and family trip (one of us is Kiwi), and travelling there for 3 months.

Early April fly back to UK, visit family again, train back to Provence. Sort out boat (restow, reprovision, paint bottom, new mainsail from Hong Kong!). Then plan to explore southern France (incluidng expensive bits, but Chief Engineer very keen to sample to fleshpots) then Corsica, Western Italy, Sardinia. Exactly where depends on whether we find somewhere to stop for a bit. By then we might want tos tay in one place for a couple of months.

End Augst/early September need to do another earning bash before more of Italy/Malta and Tunisia in 2009.
 
Re: Its raining & I am very very bored - 2008 What Plans?

well then you better start asking around for a place.Winters not easy to get a place but summers almost impossible and very expensive.

Ideally you want to plan to live on board from april until end September.You dident say how big your boat is the more its over about 30 foot the less the chance of a place,to many large boats about

Large boat Baltic cheap lots of room. Med fingers crossed,im looking to down size for the new season
 
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