So, apart from working on the boat, have we actually used her much? Well to be honest not as much as we would like for various reasons mostly associated with children. At the end of July I sailed her with a friend from Poole to Lymington so that we could watch the J Class yachts race. The family drove to Lymington for the weekend and we had a lovely weekend.

They were stunning. Sorry about the quality of the pictures, the air was heavy with low cloud and the water hugely churned up by the spectator boats.

Anyway, we had a good day, lunch just off Newtown Creek, then the J Class and then a run ashore in Lymington. David (crew Dartmouth to Weymouth) and his wife came along as well. My wife drove home on the Sunday and I sailed the boat home with the children as crew. What wind there was, on the nose, so we motored without even tha sails up I am afraid.