Very true Howard and Giles. It was bought because of the heritage to the village and yes...we know that maintenance will be expensive and hard work. The boat comes out in October for a major refurbish. But for the group involved that’s part of the fun of it.
As the estuary is tidal our sailing times are quite restricted to the highest tides. For the other times I have the family Enterprise to mess about in. The estuary is better suited to dinghies! We took that out for the first time today on high tide....it’s not sailed for ten years and I’ve soent a fair bit of time working on it. A self bailer leaks which is 😳 but otherwise it was huge fun. I’ve not sailed on the estuary since I was a teenager and indeed not sailed since and loved every minute of it.
