La Bamba – Page 6 – Voyages of sailing boat La Bamba

Silver Solent

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.

Getting ready for action

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.

In the Pink

Friday 25th & Saturday 26 April 2025

We are getting La Bamba ready for her new season. Spot the new Bimini:

To Hamble for Boatshow prep

Tuesday, 27 August

Today we delivered La Bamba to Hamble marina for her to be polished up for the Southampton Boatshow (14-22 September).

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.

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.