Stockholm to Chichester in a Dragonfly 1000 Trimaran.

[Vagabond]

Well I did it!

I am very impressed with her. I was in some big seas in the Baltic and she behaved beyond my expectations.

From Kiel to Chichester I had little wind though which was a shame and I must have added a 3rd to the engine hours!

Best speed was 14.4 knots just before Cuxhaven. I was boarded by French Customs just off the Calais and they picked my up on my Log keeping and a bottle of some out of date medicine. I didn't know what the bottle was but it was a small brown one with a Swedish label!? They let me off a fine for not keeping a correct Log and gave me a little telling off. Best speed surfing down a wave was 12.3 knots just off Gedser!

The trip took 2 weeks including a day's rest in Brighton.

Must admit it was exhausting!

 

[Sans Bateau]

Vagabond

Congrats, welcome back!!

So let me get this right, you came ALL the way from Stockhlom to Chichester and you stopped to rest in BRIGHTON!! UUGH! Was there nowhere more interesting on the way to stop, or was Brighton the best option!

 

[trouville]

did the French customs stop you for speeding? They dont normally board British boats if there not enormouse,do they?? sounds like a bad european development,and i dont keep a log at all?? Am i obliged to?

I used to but rarly read them apart from the page with music i wanted to download but you cant do that anymore either.

After kiel there isent much rason to stop untill France anyway you did stop on the way down the Swedish coast dident you?

A british tri maran passed me in Sweden i have the name somewhere it was somthing but couldent read "of Where" if your wife was stearing and you where diving in and out of the cabin certainly looking at your chart it may have been you as there arnt many tris up there and fewer British ones

 

[AngusMcDoon]

There's a British flagged Dragonfly 920 based in Vastervik. Could it have been that one?

 

[Vagabond]

Hi Guys,

By Brighton I was shattered. I wanted to get to the UK before the weather turned so I was only stopping overnight. The boarding by French customs made me a little late and I didn't make it to Brighton until 2am.

Allinge was the best stop over. Lovely little Danish fishing village.

She's called Aquila and she's a green striped DF 1000. Lorraine and I got to Kulmar on the Swedish coast when she had to leave to get back to work and left me to it so it could have been us. Where did I pass you?

 

[trouville]

got the name now it was "ann of" but where i couldent see,seems there are quite some English Tris in Sweden!!

 

[davidbains]

Congratulations. After sailing a tri for many years I know it's exhilarating but tiring.
I really don't know why the French coastguard should stop you. What flag is the
Dragonfly registered under. Where in Chichester are you? I used to keep
Aqua Blue in Prinsted on Thorney Island, she's in Trieste now!
Have you given up a motor boat for a tri!?

 

[Vagabond]

Hi David,

I registered her in the UK and had the SSR doc with me. I think they may have just be training as 2 chaps seemed like they knew what they were doing but the other two didn't. I was even moored next to them in the Marina before I left!

She's in chichester Marina now ... haven't given up the MOBO just yet.

 

[AngusMcDoon]

Any photies?

 

[Birdseye]

Like speeding tickets in the UK, its probably a "quota" issue. So many stops a day, particularly if there is a redundancy campaign in the air. Or alternatively a new ambitious regional manager.

Who knows? Speak French, offer them coffee and biscuits. No probs

 

[AngusMcDoon]

For sale again already?

Aquila

 

[ex-Gladys]

£98 grand??????????

 

[AngusMcDoon]

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£98 grand??????????

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They aren't cheap. That's not an exceptional asking price for a 6 year old DF1000. There's another 1999 one for sale in Germany at the moment for €139k.