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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 cleaning the bilges I’d found a slight weep from one of the four bolts used to secure the two main anodes to the hull. Its washer was rusted leaving a slight rust stain where water must have oozed from the bolt and dribbled into the bilge. The concern was if the hull was wet from the water ingress … Continue reading Play d’eau goes up in the world 
Logging into the Motor Boat Forum at ybw.com a week ago to catch up with news, I found ‘Thepipdoc’ had come into Beaucette Marina the previous evening on one engine having had an engine failure part way across the English Channel … Continue reading Lady Jazz interrupts her music making 
In my post ‘The Finishing Touches’ I hinted at a major problem with the Simrad AP70 autopilot. Given it was only the second AP70 to be installed (serial No 2) was it a software problem? An integration issue? Andy Craig of MEI comes to the rescue … Continue reading Simrad v Furuno – the problem solved? 
Like many other boaters, we’ve been caught out by fog. It was a mid-summer hot day with only a gentle breeze from the north and clear blue skies. Our eldest son pointed and asked, ‘what’s that?’ In just a few minutes we knew. We were completely engulfed in thick fog … Continue reading Radar, MARPA and Radar Assisted Collisions 
Martin Janning flies to Guernsey on a lovely blue sky and hot day, to ‘sort out’ the niggles that have become apparent since the refit … Continue reading The finishing touches 
We replaced the original helm seat with a beautiful new STIDD to overcome two drawbacks which, over time, had began to irritate us … Continue reading A new helm seat 
After 10 years of glorious cruising, we decided it was time to upgrade Play d’eau’s electronics. We spent considerable time researching which equipment, suppliers and installers would be used, and work finally began in the winter of 2012 and finished before the season started in 2013. … Continue reading Play d’eau is featured in MBY 
To descale the engines, we devised an alternative method from just sending the heat exchangers away for cleaning. This would save time and do the whole engine. … Continue reading Descaling the heat exchanger 
We eventually bit the bullet and had a stern thruster fitted. Watching the hole being cut in the transom was unnerving to say the least … Continue reading Fitting a Stern Thruster 
Taking Play d’eau for a day trip to Yarmouth, we wondered why she wouldn’t fly. … Continue reading Is this fouling or what? |
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