Sailing Coconut

On Wednesday after home school, we took the bus to Gorey. We had lunch at a beach cafe and then went to see the Castle. In the castle they had dressing up things so we dressed up as knights. We explo ...

Provident and the Heritage Regatta Before Daddy did the Clipper race he worked for Trinity Sailing in Brixham running Leader, Provident and Golden Vanity. Leader and Provident were due to be at the Br ...

Sailing 'Octopus 2' We have a second tender on Coconut called 'Octopus 2' (we had a different tender before called 'Octopus'). 'Octopus 2' can be sailed, motored or rowed and we hadn't tried sailing h ...

Dinghy driving lessons Today we did some dinghy driving lessons. We drove around the lifeboat and different boats in the harbour. When we practiced docking we would head toward the fishing boat on th ...

Crossing the channel We left Yarmouth very early while me and Fergus were still in bed. When we woke up at about 5.30am we could still see the Isle of Wight. We came up on deck at about 7am. We motors ...

We finally got to the end of the essential jobs list, said our last goodbyes and left Ocean Quay for the last time in a while on Saturday afternoon. A short motor down the western Solent in ligh ...

Two days ago we finally finished sorting the boat out and were ready to go sailing! We motored to Cowes as the wind was very light and we stayed in the Marina overnight. In Cowes we went to a Tapas r ...

Well, we are finally resident on board. We moved out of the house and onto the boat last weekend, and Monday 6th was our first night on board of our big trip. The boat has been very chaotic over the l ...

By Archie Saturday 30th March Today we sailed to Gosport. We got there, after relaxing for a short while, then we went to the submarine museum. It was really fun and we s ...

While a modern yacht has lots of great systems on board to make life easy and comfortable - communications gear, autopilot, refrigeration, powered winches etc - they all require power. The generation, ...