In amongst all our to’ing and fro’ing to Tahiti, we found time to visit family and friends in Europe. Not at all a boat related trip, but part of our busy year which we thought we would include here. This included: catching up with family in the UK – Berkshire, Richmond, Isle of Wight and …
We had several visits to the boat over the year. We were not ready to move aboard immediately with a bunch of things to sort out at home first; not least of which was Deb retiring in June. March 2024 is when we will have shut up shop in Sydney and started calling the boat …
We had been looking at boats online for sometime, getting an idea of what we wanted, what was available and a feel for the market. This whilst we were still both working, but intent on renewing some of our cruising experience once we had retired. We had pretty much landed on two criteria. First we …