After spending time on our Catalina in the Cleddau estuary, getting used to the difference between being on a nice calm lake, and being out in open water with tides and currents, we decided to look in to doing our day skipper training. As we plan to sail the med and further afield one day,…

After a long summer of anticipation, we finally got the news that the restrictions had been lifted enough for us to be able to transport the boat home to Wales. We hired a company to bring her down, and met them at Milford Haven, where she was due to spend a few months on the…

Once the mast and running rigging was installed it was finally time to learn to sail! This was very exciting but also quite daunting, as we had never tried anything like this before. Lake Windermere was a brilliant place to learn, as we didnt need to worry too much about things like tides, navigation, and…