Oh my! Even with COVID bursting over all of us with its indiscriminate attacks, it feels as though Lin and I haven’t… …
Continue reading Where did the last two and a half years go?
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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. You can contact us here. |
We started planning this year’s upgrades by having new carpets in December 2018, ready for Christmas. After 16 years of sterling service the backing of our brown saloon and companionway carpets was sad and disintegrating. It was decided … Continue reading Upgrades for 2019 
We’d suffered the most horrendous effects of a NNE storm whilst moored in St Peter Port’s Victoria marina in October 2018. It had taken 11 of our 18mm multiplait ropes to hold Play d’eau but seeing the immense strain… … Continue reading Out with the old, in with the new 
We’d become irritated with having to change Play d’eau’s costly onboard 2 micron water filter every few months. The removed blackened filters showed just how dirty local water supplies were, wherever we happened to fill the 1,150 litre water tanks. Whilst… … Continue reading Clean water, please 
At Christmas, what could be a better present than a new addition to the family? Our son Toby and his wife Amy, having married in April 2014 have given birth to a … … Continue reading A child is born 
‘We have a leak – a big leak,’ I shouted to Lin. I’d reached into the cabinet under the galley sink for a bottle of Fairy liquid (yes, I really was about to do the washing up), but all I felt was wet. A lot of very wet, wetness. Quickly looking inside with a torch … Continue reading Oh no! to Elation 
May we immediately assure everyone that our radio silence for the last two years has not been because we’ve finally navigated to the great marina in the sky. No. With considerable quantities of fuel left in life’s tanks, we’ve loved many months in the magnificent country of South Africa,… … Continue reading It’s Christmas! 
‘I’m engaged!’ whispered Kimberleigh to Lin and I. We were staying in a small boutique Johannesburg hotel where Head Chef Kimberleigh had been feeding us far too well … Continue reading An Engagement 
‘The silence is deafening. What have you been doing?’ asked a friend of mine when I hadn’t posted anything on the Play d’eau site for three months. I started to explain only to be met with the comment, ‘Excuses, excuses, … Continue reading A deafening silence 
Having prepared our Fleming 55, Play d’eau, for the journey, Kim and I left sunny Beaucette soon after midday delivering a long and triumphant blast of the Kahlenbergs to echo around the marina’s quarry walls, and set sail (set motor?) for the journey. Not bound for South Africa but Southampton via Alderney where we’d have a few hours break for supper. … Continue reading Play d’eau and South Africa |
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