Voyages of sailing boat La Bamba
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 🇧🇪”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!
Continue reading “Day 39, Round the Dover Strait to Boulogne, 39nm”Saturday, 10 August
Another lovely sunny day as we left Ostende in 12-15 knots of wind around 9am. We had one reef in and skipped along nicely at around 8 knots.
Continue reading “Day 38 – Ostend to Dunkirk, 28nm”
We motor sailed fast through the night
On calm seas along German Bight
To Terschelling we headed
Took turns to be bedded
Pink dawn was a wonderful sight!
Continue reading “Dutch Limericks 🇳🇱”Friday, 9 August
Today we stayed in Ostend as it’s still very windy. We had planned to stay 2 nights anyway but someone needs to go up the mast to fetch that main halyard before we can sail again, and that someone is me!
Continue reading “Day 37 – Up the Mast in Ostend”Thursday 8, August
We set off at 8:30 and had a half hour wait for the mega bridge lock, mostly because a Swan yacht had gone a bit early and nabbed the lock just for itself before the rest of us got there.
Continue reading “Day 36, Reefing and Tacking to Ostende, 75nm”Wednesday, 7 August
We left Scheveningen around 8am to avoid strong winds forecast for later in the day.
Continue reading “Day 35, Scheveningen to Stellendam 36nm”