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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 
Wanting to jump straight onto the gearbox technical issues quickly, I called TwinDisc’s UK distributors on Monday and explained the oil spill from the flywheel housing. ‘We’ll fly in first thing on Thursday and take the late evening flight back on Friday,’ said Paul Masey, Service Manager. What service. What a star. … Continue reading Gearbox and tacho – sorted 
Play d’eau’s had two clever modifications recently, and both have fully achieved their objective. Lin and I had spent ages trying to track down stale cooking smells. The galley was spotlessly clean, the curtains and woodwork were cleaned, so where were those horrid old cooking smells coming from? … Continue reading Two clever mods 
After a short night in Oslo’s Royal Christiana, we board a train for the seven hour journey of wonderment across the mountains to Bergen. Our eyes feast on pure white snow, ice covered rivers and lakes, ski slopes, a house here and there under thick layers of snow to keep warm. Fresh coffee (tea for Lin) comes from the buffet carriage. … Continue reading We’re off to celebrate 
Bloscon is already a great marina, and next year will be simply superb. M. Frédérie Boccou, Maître du Port, spent forty minutes with me unravelling the creation of the Bloscon complex, and detailed the next and last developments to bring the marina to completion by May 2014 … Continue reading Roscoff Bloscon Marina 
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 
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 
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 |
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