About this site

Piers and Lin du Pré bought their new Fleming 55 / 129, Play d'eau, in 2003.

She was berthed in Beaucette Marina, Guernsey in the Channel Islands at N49° 30’.197 W002° 30’.350 until she was sold in October 2021.

This site charts the thrilling adventures they had in her.

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Where’s Play d’eau?

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Recent Posts

Crouton Soldiers

Crouton soldiers, golden brown

These are so much more fun than the usual square croutons, and so simple to make, but ensure no one is about when you make them – they’ll disappear without trace if you aren’t watching like a hawk! …

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‘Best of Breed’ Cooking Ingredients

Cornish sea salt. Until we tried this we hadn't tasted real salt.

This post is to list the ingredients we’ve found to be best of breed and as time allows, we’ll be adding more. Our first ‘salt revelation’ came when we were shown that weight for weight, you have considerably more salt by quantity if you use an unprocessed sea salt rather than a free running, chemically enhanced table salt …

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Vegetable Stock

All ingredients trimmed, peeled and chopped and in the pot

Our recipe for stock has been worked and refined over the years and never lets us down, producing a concentrated stock for many of the recipes we’ll be adding. It’s packed with flavour and keeps really well in the fridge for a good three weeks and almost for ever in a freezer …

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Parmesan crisps

Parmesan Diamond crisps - they'll go as fast as you can serve them!

These Parmesan Diamond crisps are so, so more-ish. Great with drinks and they’ll disappear the moment you serve them amidst many ‘wows’ of praise …

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From the Galley of Play d’eau

Play d'eau galley

After much encouragement, Lin and I have decided to add a section on Cooking onboard

The first recipe will be Parmesan Diamond crisps which are really simple to make and so rewarding …

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