About us and the boat

About us and the boat:

We were lucky enough to retire early at the start of 2013 so we could head off and "live the dream" on board our Nordhavn 47 Trawler Yacht. The idea is to see some of the planet, at a slow 6 - 7 knots pace. There are no fixed goals or timings, we just had a plan to visit Scotland and then probably the Baltic before heading south.

The idea is to visit the nicer areas in these latitudes before heading south for warmer weather. If we like somewhere, we will stay for a while. If not, we will just move on. So, for the people who love forward planning and targets, this might seem a little relaxed!

If anyone else is contemplating a trawler yacht life, maybe our experiences will be enough to make you think again, or maybe do it sooner then you intended!

The boat is called Rockland and she is built for long distance cruising and a comfortable life on board too. If you want to see more about trawler yachts and the Nordhavn 47 in particular, there is a link to the manufacturers website in our "useful stuff" section. For the technically minded, there is a little info and pictures of the boat and equipment in the same section

Regards

Richard and June

Sunday, 8 December 2013

Storms and the "how much can you get into a VW Golf" game

Well, just before we were due to leave Caister-on-Sea (and complete on the sale of the bungalow there, a nice big storm and corresponding spring tide decided to batter the East coast. Luckily, the bungalow is on one of the high areas of the village. If it flooded, then half of Norfolk would already be underwater.

The beach too a pasting though - most of it seemed to vanish overnight as did the cafe that has been on the beach ever since the captain was a kid. Now it is more "all over the beach" than on the beach:








UK readers of this strange blog probably saw some coverage of the chaos. For people outside the BBC / ITV world, here are a couple of pictures showing how the storm surge took out houses etc a few miles up the coast:





In Great Yarmouth, there was a little car wash irony:


We had less excitement, until it came to loading up the hire car to get back to Penarth. With careful thought, you can get more into a little Golf than the baby petrol engine wishes to drag up hills. Then of course, you have to find spots inside an already full Nordhavn 47 to store it all - the rental companies get a bit sniffy if you return the car with overflow stuff inside.

Well, mission finally accomplished, bungalow emptied and sold. There will be fewer "Norfolk" posts now and most certainly nothing about "Great" Yarmouth. We can both live the rest of our lives in total contentment without ever seeing that place or the delightful imported and unemployed people again. How places change when the holidaymakers and their money vanish and guest houses turn into doss houses.....


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