Voyages of sailing boat La Bamba
Monday 19 May
David spent the morning readjusting our steering which was a bit too tight. One of the things I love most about La Bamba is the lightness of the helm. Then he adjusted the windlass which was knocking a bit when the engine was on. We discovered these yesterday on our first sail so that was very useful.
Continue reading “Pootling and Reef Checking”May 18, Sunday
Finally our first sail of the year! We were very glad to welcome new crew to dust off the cobwebs on a beautiful shimmering Solent sail on a perfect day.
Continue reading “Silver Solent”May 4-7
Over winter we had La Bamba’s sails off, so we put them back on again and put all the reefing lines back in.
Friday 25th & Saturday 26 April 2025
We are getting La Bamba ready for her new season. Spot the new Bimini:
Tuesday, 27 August
Today we delivered La Bamba to Hamble marina for her to be polished up for the Southampton Boatshow (14-22 September).
Continue reading “To Hamble for Boatshow prep”Well this is the end of our first journey. La Bamba has been cleaned and tidied and all her bedding is off to be laundered. We really enjoyed ourselves and are so looking forward to our next La Bamba adventure which I will post here. Thank you for sailing with us.
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!
Continue reading “English Limericks 🇬🇧”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…
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!
Continue reading “French Limericks 🇫🇷”Friday, 16 July
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.
Continue reading “Day 44 – Brighton to Lymington, 74nm”