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

Friday 8 May 2015

And then the tables were (re)turned

After the delights of Gosport (and two days of gale force winds) we trundled back to the Hamble and a night at the (still) ludicrous MDL visitor rates.

For those folks not used to hovercraft, here is the Southsea to Ryde hovercraft - the only scheduled passenger hovercraft service in Europe and the oldest one in the world too. Have a look at hovertravel website . For 30 year old craft, they still look impressive though as they noisily tear past you out to sea:





Why? Well, Yann the Nordhavn man had resurfaced our tables and so we went to reclaim them. Also, Paul the Maricom man came down to look at the nice new navigation PC that wasn't behaving nicely at all.

The outcome- a very happy crew who had 2 re-varnished tables to take care of (death for anyone who scratches them now or spills hot drinks). Also a PC that was not fully under control but was better - kind of like a kid that has got through the nappy wetting stage but still likes to crayon on the walls.

Whilst there, the folks from MDS Marine were testing out a rescue watercraft that was about to be delivered. Watching the capsize drill from our cockpit was fun:




Being dumped into a cold Hamble river looked a lot less amusing though.

Where next - well, Roland the MDS man is going to plumb in our backup fresh water pump on Monday so we decided to trundle over to Cowes when we could meet up with two stars of this blog - John (the knees) and Tina.
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