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

Saturday 13 July 2013

You, Patrick and other peripheral stuff

Thought it was time for an update on all the other themes that seem to be developing here.

Firstly, the desire to read this drivel seems to continue - 2,000 hits have now been reached and passed. If people take an average of 30 seconds to scan the rubbish work out the hours spent and brain cells exercised over nothing worthwhile. Scary, truly scary.

Amanda (Patrick's almost godmother) complained that she couldn't add any comments to the blog posts. Well, all the boxes to enable that are ticked but for some reason it doesn't want to work. If this was a Microsoft tool, then it would be a "feature" of course. We will mail the nice Google people in tech support and see if they can help. The "comments" option seems to work on some of the posts but not all of them.  In the meanwhile keep sending emails that we will cut and paste into here folks.

Patrick, it seems, hadn't managed to sell 20% of our boat or the other Nordhavn at Inverkip to Pat and Graham. They figured out that the deal might not be a good one. He has been quite subdued during the foggy trips and very engrossed looking at the local scenery when the sun breaks through, binoculars to flipper:


We found a couple of feral goats on the little island nearby and he seems to stare at them a lot:


Freud could probably work out why....

Blog updates will be "patchy" now as WIFI / strong O2 signals will become harder and harder to get as we head further north. So, expect big time gaps then several pointless updates being loaded all at once. We are sure that you can contain your excitement.....




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3 comments:

  1. Anonymous14 July 2013 at 12:57

    So Patrick has become a goatherder? The 'almost' Godmother may need to consider the RAMifications of this........

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  2. Unknown14 July 2013 at 13:23

    Patrick looks seasick and wants to go home
    SSS

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  3. Richard and June Green14 July 2013 at 14:52

    A seasick penguin. Hum..

    Bad news for Patrick though, this is now home.

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Thanks for your ideas / cheek / corrections / whatever! They should hit the blog shortly after the system checks them to make sure they will not put us or you in jail.....

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