BUSTIN' TO GET DONE...

I've been a bit busy of recent.. A couple of weeks referbing this really lovely Targa 31' came to a conclusion beginning of last week. The owner, having had the boat left in at Cowes for the last couple of years untouched, decided she needed a bit of birthday loving.....

With the hull burnished back with 1000grade and 2000 grade respectivly at a speed of 2500rpm, I think I have managed to bring back her GELCOAT to almost as new. With a quick coat of a carnuba rich Honey wax, she looked a real picture in the slings.

With one of my brothers servicing the twin Volvo inboards/outdrive legs and with her new cleaner hull antifouled with  Black Joton speed 30 she now manages to comfortably reach 38 knots, a good 4 knots faster than when we started!!

Six days of some pretty hard graft paid off I think and jim Bustin' aggreed. There was no problem with my rates, indeed the yard was also happy and they asked me to do another yacht in their yard!

Theres never enough hours in the day... I've just got off the phone to customer from last season who wants some help cruising the Med in his Hallberg Rassey 46'.

NIPPERDOG RATING

KINGSTON MARINA (COWES HARBOUR COMMISSION)

OVERALL SERVICE:  9/10

PRICE:                           8/10

FACILITIES:                9/10

STAFF:                         10/10

Some days, a fish really matters...

I love this time of year, It all becomes possible again... that long awaited fresh mackeral tugging on a line. Looking back at this photo of my brother says it all.

I'm off soon on a trip I've always wanted to do, from the CARRABEAN to the AZORES. I hope to be able  to blog when I arrive but there may be some gaps but the photos will be worth the wait. I hope you will enjoy following this journey.

Its thick fog outside and cold, like winter cold, all over again, so its a great time to look back at some of those classic days when we sparked up the jeeps, hooked up the dinghies, raided the shed for the rollocks and got back to sea...

For all the cruising about on luxary yachts, theres nothing like going on a mission in yer' own boat to somewhere nobody goes to. This is Blackgang on the kindest of days, where there's been over 200 ships lost within spitting distance of this photo, including a Spanish treasure ship (for another day) and my silver ingot ring my sis made...

One day, when the Blackgang gives us another chance, I hope to post in some more detail, our missions here looking for shipwrecks, gold, silver rings and... fish. 

If you're not too fussed about all this activity and just like taking it easy, get yourself a BBQ, take it somewhere interesting and contemplate being all at sea.