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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 
After 21 years we’re back in Carentan on the Normandy coast. I was first here with the MBM Cruise in Company fleet in the mid-1970s (can anyone remember those days?) and then with the family in 1997. But seeing the mile long yet narrow marina now, I just wonder … Continue reading Return to Carentan 
‘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 
It was a sudden flash of colour that caught my attention. Orange and turquoise. Looking up, I espied a Kingfisher on the wall by Play d’eau. You never have a camera to hand when you need one, do you? So whilst Lin brought me the camera, changed lenses, I kept watch on this bundle of colour. … Continue reading A flash of orange and turquoise 
Captain Kim Hollamby and Executive Officer Guy Nicholls cast off from Shamrock Quay, Southampton, at 2248 hrs on 28 December 2014 under a clear night sky. The temperature was well below freezing, ice was on the decks, but inside the central heating was working perfectly. … Continue reading Home at last 
Play d’eau’s been launched and awaits a weather window to come home. As Play d’eau gleams in the late afternoon light, she’s moored and floating free at her berth with sea-trials and pre-flight checks completed. … Continue reading Launched and waiting 
Why can’t the weather behave and do as it’s told? Although one of the fronts moved north, the other moved south and is hovering over the north coast of France with the English Channel sandwiched like jam in the middle with WSW F6 winds gusting F7 and rain. … Continue reading Launch delay |
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