Voyages of sailing boat La Bamba
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”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.
Continue reading “Day 43 – Brighton – Regal splendour”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.
Continue reading “Day 42 – Crossing to England, 75nm”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.
Continue reading “Day 41 – Dieppe, friend of Canada”Monday, 12 August
First of all – Happy Birthday Frances! We hope you have a great day and come back to crew for us soon!
Continue reading “Day 40, Boulogne to Dieppe – 58nm”
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!
Continue reading “Belgian Limericks 🇧🇪”