Although I’d been expecting the phone call from David Miles of Fleming Yachts Europe to advise the transfer of ownership was complete, I found… …
Continue reading The anchor’s swallowed
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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. |
In late June 2021, we cast off from Beaucette and headed north for the UK. Why? Our local COVID restrictions had been sufficiently relaxed.It felt as though we were on COVID parole and if we didn’t…. … Continue reading The ensign is lowered 
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? 
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 
Having returned from our summer cruise around the north Brittany coast, we were moored in St Peter Port’s Victoria marina rather than Beaucette since metal works were still in progress. Seeing the forecast cyclonic storm approach, we secured… … Continue reading NNE storm forces crew to abandon 
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 
I have always been fastidious in ensuring Play d’eau’s diesel comes from a known source. But is all diesel the same? An emphatic no. It’s changed and continues to change as further laws are … Continue reading Diesel 
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 |
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