We have arrived!

Arriving in Guernsey’s St Peter Port harbour on the Commodore Clipper ferry from Portsmouth
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We’ve arrived! We’re in Guernsey, on Play d’eau, beginning to live the dream we’ve held for so many years – we’ve come ‘home’.

Having boarded the 9am slow ferry from Portsmouth on 22 March 2013, we docked in the beautiful harbour of St Peter Port, Guernsey, at 4pm to start our new life as liveaboards on Play d’eau in Beaucette Marina..

The ferry crossing was in an Easterly F7 with wind over tide for much of the way creating an emotional spume strewn sea state, but as soon as we’d cleared the Alderney Race and entered ‘Channel Island territory’ the wind died down, the sea settled and the last two hours were lovely with the sun trying to peek through the cloud.

We drove off the ferry, handed in our landing cards, cleared customs, ready to begin the next chapter of our lives.

Piers and Lin
from the Saloon of
Play d’eau
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