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English Limericks 🇬🇧

Crossing the Channel the sea was like glass

Shipping lanes full of big boats to pass

Finally a breeze

La Bamba with ease

Sped into Brighton – the best looking lass!

Beautiful boats

Here I want to share with you one of the delights of sailing: that is spotting pretty boats that need more maintenance than you can deal with…

French Limericks 🇫🇷

A wonderful sail all the way to Dunkirk

I took the helm and set David to work

The museum was fine

All about the wartime

Jazz on the beach – an additional perk!

Day 44 – Brighton to Lymington, 74nm

Friday, 16 July

Leaving Brighton on a very calm morning after yesterday’s wind

The final leg of our journey all the way from Uddevalla on Thursday 4 July was into La Bamba’s home port of Lymington. We cannot believe we are here or that we have actually come all this way in our little boat.

Day 43 – Brighton – Regal splendour

Guest Blogger: Alex Paige

Thursday, 15 August

Leaving David and Eleanor to guard La Bamba, I set off down the long stony beach towards central Brighton.

Day 42 – Crossing to England, 75nm

Wednesday 14 August

We got up at dawn, well it was still dark at 5.30 as we have come much further South since we set off 5 weeks ago yesterday! By 6 we were leaving the cliffs of Dieppe. As we left, the night fishing fleet came in.

Day 41 – Dieppe, friend of Canada

Tuesday, 13 August

Today we had a lie-in and a relaxing day in Dieppe. We have been sailing every day recently and we need to be fresh for our early start tomorrow morning.

Day 40, Boulogne to Dieppe – 58nm

Monday, 12 August

First of all – Happy Birthday Frances! We hope you have a great day and come back to crew for us soon!

Belgian Limericks 🇧🇪

Sunny sailing along on a close tack

Put in a reef, shook the out, put it back

At Ostend the wind blew

Our main halyard flew

We surged in with the sky turning black!

Day 39, Round the Dover Strait to Boulogne, 39nm

Sunday, 11 August

A very foggy morning today! But we set off anyway on glassy seas with hardly a breath of wind, motoring with the main up – to help anyone see us – and with fog horn at the ready!