Category: Blog

  • Granddaughters’ First Day at school

    Both granddaughters started school this month, and they have big brothers to look after them !

  • Dunkirk Little Ships

    The first weekend in September has become a very important one for the club. It’s when we host the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships on the moorings, and together with the ADLS host a couple of days of entertainment for the Veterans from all the Forces. We also host naval ratings, this year from HMS…

  • Lazy August days

    August and September are very busy months for the club, there are several important dates in the Calendar. So we decided to take Etta to the club for 6 weeks rather than travel up and down every weekend. The club had organised a mooring for the Commodore (thank you Derek and Ian) so we were…

  • Wending our way home

    As I write we are on the Thames, approaching the Thames Barrier on a beautifully sunny day , and calm seas all around. We spent two days in Blankenberge but then the weather forecast sent us running for Ramsgate. Severa left us for Chatham on Thursday then rejoined us on the Thames. Brainwave and Odyssea…

  • Breezy Breskens

    The journey from Gent to Breskens was very pleasant, with the Gent-Terneuzen Canal not being as industrial as some we have seen recently. Lots of barge traffic, but railway bridges and locks opened pretty conveniently and after leaving the inland waterways, a 10nm sea trip later, and we were soon moored up in Breskens, with…

  • Gent – Music and Mayhem

    We left Gent-Leie Yacht club

  • The chicken night

    We needed to find somewhere

  • The beautiful River Leie

  • From Brugge to Deinze

    Bye Bye Brugge say Graham and Ella

  • Brugge Art and Architecture

    It’s a privilege to be moored so centrally