What have we done!

The delicate job of splitting chuckle mast needed to be a family affair. Poor chuckle but her remade mast is going to be the biz.

Home from school

Fergus can not wait to change before he gets stuck in to some mast scraping. If only life was as straight forward as scraping off varnish.

Mast refurb or replace

Freyja and fergus have loved stripping the mast of all its wires lights and hardware. Busy like beavers they have done it all in no time at all.

Giving the mast a close inspection we find a crack at the partners and a pocked of rot under a cleat. Great its made of wood, now to cut it down its middle and see if its worth repairing with new scarfed on timber or weather we just make a new one.

Mast

It took some planning to get it home. Now i have to strip it of all and cut in half length ways and fix or make new. No small task. Will it be done in time for bit of new year sailing!

Max

Our wwoofing (world wide opportunities on organic farms) house resident max came with us sailing on sunday. We left the harbour to meet large wave and freyja wanted in so 100 yrds out we about turned and came back in. Well we had a look. And max loved it.

Today i made a fishing trip

Wow. With the help of a local friend the human fish finder we catch lots

Firth of the Forth Family Cruising Movie

The above 39 min. movie (it has a blank bit at the end, oops!) has been made to inspire free spirited travellers everywhere to share their adventures with their children. It has been a big commitment to go away for 27 days but well worth it for the children especially. We have all most definitely come to know parts of each other we might never have known. Dads now shared dream is that we may be able to do this every year! Thanks must go to all the warm welcomes we recieved from the generous hearted sea folk we met along the way, with out them, would we have made it!