Saturday 16th August 2014 saw Quartette off on her Canal-du-Midi trip from Sete (Frontignan marina) to Carcassonne, Toulouse, then on to Bordeaux. Once again she is de-masted and converted into a motor launch, with multitudes of fenders, two folding bikes and plenty of sun cream! The de-masting was trouble free, aided by the usual sign […]

Writing this in Concarneau on Wednesday 19th August, as a nasty low pressure system beats up Biscay, Brittany and England. Nigel Aldridge and I have been on the boat for over a week now and have not murdered or abandoned each other yet, so we are working our way back to Otaria’s base at Foleux, […]

by Judith Hankey Richard and I, as a sailing household and not needing to overnight on the boats, were able to start sailing earlier this season, but other members have caught us up and indeed overtaken us with how many sailing days they have done. We try to use non-weekends to allow the working population […]