Looks like we may have a weather window to leave La Rochelle on Monday… Stay tuned! We’re currently doing all our final shopping and boat jobs in order to be ready to go as soon as we get the word. Bay of Biscay, let’s do this!
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Having moved aboard three and a half weeks ago and completed the commissioning of our boat, all that’s left to do now is leave La Rochelle. And so, we are just waiting for the right weather in order to cross the Bay of Biscay…
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After opting for some extra training (on top of the standard three days’ handover), we tackled the last session head-on. But this time our trainer Alain stepped it up a notch… Boy, there is a lot that we don’t know!
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Waking up after our first night aboard was a chilly one… Not exactly what we’d signed up for, given the name of this adventure! Nonetheless, we bundled off the kids with the grandparents and braved the weather for our third day of sail training…
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Day two of getting to know our boat started with a trip up the mast, followed by playing with the spinnaker out in the bay, and ended with a glimmer of hope that we could, in fact, master the cruising life…
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Today was the first day sailing s/v Long Summer. Surrounded by brand new million-dollar yachts, the pressure was on not to destroy our dream or somebody else’s!
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Meet sailing vessel Long Summer! Our home of choice is an Astréa 42 sailing catamaran from Fountaine Pajot…
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Meet the s/v Long Summer crew! Join us as we step out of the city and into the world. We quit our jobs, bought a boat, and are learning how to sail off into the sunset…
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For the third year running we attended the Singapore Yacht Show at ONE°15 Marina, Sentosa Cove. This is the first place we originally stepped foot on a Fountaine Pajot and met Andrew from Multihull Solutions, which ultimately sold us on our chosen catamaran…
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What does it take to become a live-aboard cruiser?
“You need patience, tenacity, and no fear of hard work.
And cash. The amount will depend on the above.
The rest can be learnt.”
After an exhilarating first week is was time to tackle the second half of our course, without knowing what adventures it may bring! So, being relatively new to the world of boat management and maintenance we got stuck into some tasks around the marina. First job: send Em up the mast…!
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After 18 months of liaising and planning, our 2-week overseas training course was finally upon us! We left Singapore and flew to Krabi International Airport. Having travelled only with kids for the past 3.5 years, there was a sense that we had forgotten something… But we soon settled into a book each on the short flight over to Thailand...
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“So you landlubbers want to be sailors, eh?”
It would have been cool if someone asked us that, but they didn’t. Nevertheless, attaining our skipper licenses was a very important milestone for us to undertake and lean into…
Whether it’s on forums, blogs, books, or Instagram, one of the most common tips when learning to sail is to “just go down to the local sailing club and ask a member to take you out”. Learning on other people’s boats has a number of advantages - it’s cheap, low-commitment and provides a huge learning experience to see someone else in command of a pretty complex machine. At least - that’s the advice and theory!
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What do you do when you can’t attend a really important (and very cool) event? Call on your family… Especially the relatives who are due to have a baby on the very day that the event starts. :)
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Time to start studying! We're all signed up for the RYA Essential Navigation and Seamanship Course…
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We were thrilled to have the opportunity to visit the Foutaine Pajot factory in France this week - something we had hoped to achieve at some point…
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Living in South East Asia and planning an adventure across the world has its pluses and minuses...
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Well, this has been a significant week for us! In the space of not very long at all we have secured our future on a new 42ft catamaran…
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We have had the opportunity on a few occasions to see yachts at boat shows, and these are obviously occasions when you see boats at their very best! What we were keen to see, however, is how people live and use boats in real life…
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