Month: July 2017

  • A breezy sail

    A breezy sail

    A lovely sail today. A bit breezy and choppy, and thus I had to reef the main and furl the jibs a bit.

  • Cleaning the bilge

    Cleaning the bilge

    On the trip from Conwy to Holyhead, Blue Opal‘s bilge got filled with the contents of a canister of clean engine oil. You can imagine the panic this caused when we reached Holyhead, and performed an inspection of the boat to ensure that everything was fine. It resulted in one of my crew climbing down…