Share Our Journey and Adventures!
Well, I can’t believe that it’s been nearly a year since we updated our website! We have had such a busy year – what with closing down the company and getting the house ready for renting, as well as getting the boat ready to be our full time residence. […]
Our annual two week summer holiday this year was spent on Sanguine – a different kind of cruise to our normal choice! We did a few odd jobs on the Saturday and Sunday, then set off on Monday morning for our holiday. Ali and Rob […]
BH Monday – our first trip out from the marina since we moved the boat. It was a beautiful day and we did the short trip from Newbury to Marsh Benham to the Red House pub with Graham, Paula and Liz . It was also […]
Day five of our week saw us doing our first solo trip! As expected, with our new found confidence, it all went to plan with no dramas. We had a very pleasant trip from Thatcham to Newbury and arrived just about lunchtime, just as it […]
Today was the second day of our Helmsman’s Course and Tim arrived at Aldermaston at 9.30 a.m as arranged. He spent a long time going through the boat’s various systems with us – we now know how to switch on the inverter! It was quite windy today which gave […]
Day three of our Moving Week was eventful, to say the least! We were at the marina for our crane lift at 7.30 am; the lorry was already there. They placed the straps on the boat, lifted her a bit to make sure she was balanced, adjusted […]
We arrived at Dobson’s Wharf this morning and the first thing we did was to have breakfast for the first time on our own boat! We stayed in a hotel last night simply because we thought it would be so cold and damp on the boat, with it not having […]
We had booked this week off work in order to move the boat down from Dobson’s Wharf to our new mooring in Newbury Marina, but we hadn’t accounted for the weather! We’d booked a Helmsman’s Course with Tim from Watercraft Training – today on his boat at Calcutt Marina […]
On a cold winter’s day in January, we traveled up to Shardlow, near Derby. Money paid and paperwork completed – she’s ours at last! She’s staying moored here for a while until we can sort out a mooring a bit closer to home, then we’ll move her down. Winter stoppages […]
Today’s the day that Sanguine was lifted from the water and she was surveyed by Mike Chadwick. We went to meet Mike and his “apprentice” Adrian first thing and saw her being taken out of the water, then we left them to it and went and did a bit of […]