Sailing
OGA Summer Cruise, 2022
Back to the Tidemill after the Classic Yacht Regatta, it was time to get ready for the OGA East Coast Cruise, July 2022.
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Sailing
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Sailing
Sail, oar & paddle
Electric outboard & 2 kayaks!
In 2020 we took delivery of a Torqeedo outboard, for use on both ‘Cachalot’ and ‘Cachalette’, then we bought two kayaks!
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Sailing
Out with the sailmaker!
Steve M’s been promising to come up to sail with us to check out the performance of our Ratsey & Lapthorn sails.
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Sailing
Sailing in company with ‘Tannhauser’
‘Tannhauser’ is declared ready for her first trip out of the Marina. Ben and Steve decide to go out together when PJ arrives on Friday, 17 June.
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Maintenance
‘Cachalette’: winter maintenance
In 2018 we decided that maintenance in the back garden was really too challenging and in 2021 we moved ‘Cachalette’ down to Suffolk permanently.
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Sailing
OGA Summer Cruise, 2021
With Simon and Ricarda as crew, we looked forward to joining the OGA East Coast Cruise, July 2021.
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Sailing
Out of the River Deben at last, 2021
Since her launch in August, 2017, ‘Cachalot’ has never actually left the Deben!
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History
A special visitor
Early in 2021 we received an email via the ‘Cachalot’ website from Tom Corbett, owner of ‘Cachalot’ between 1970 – 1975.
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Sailing
‘Lockdown’ in the River Deben
As a national ‘lockdown’ looked increasingly likely, Steve drove to Suffolk on 14 March, 2020 to check on ‘Cachalot’, just in case we’d have to leave her for another few months.
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History
Recent owners
Gone are the handwritten entries with signature and official stamp on broadsheet-sized manilla folded into the cloth-bound ‘blue book’. Since the 1990s the Certificate of British Registry is simply a laminated piece of A4 card, printed in plain type and renewable every five years.
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Sailing
Woodbridge Maritime Festival, 2018
Now we’re afloat, we were invited to join in with Maritime Woodbridge, 2018 in the Town Dock.
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Sail, oar & paddle
‘Cachalette’: the first ten years
Started in 2008 and launched in 2010, we sailed ‘Cachalette’ on Carsington Water and took her to Suffolk for the summer, towed behind the Bongo.
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History
Commemorated on stamps: 2015
In 2015 a set of stamps commemorating the Dunkirk Little Ships evacuation of Dunkirk in 1940 was released by the Republic of Palau, comprising about 100 islands and islets at the western end of the Caroline Islands chain in the western Pacific Ocean.
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Sail, oar & paddle
‘Cachalette’ launch, 2010
There was quite a lot of research to do before launching ‘Cachalette’ in order to decide where we were going to keep her.
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Sail, oar & paddle
Iain Oughtred ‘Guillemot’
As Steve was restoring ‘Cachalot’, he was already thinking about a tender, so why not build one with similarly elegant lines?
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History
ADLS Rally: Ipswich
‘Cachalot’ has taken part in events run by the ADLS, including the 1990 ‘Return to Dunkirk’.
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Sailing
Summer sailing, 2006
Starting to sail with ‘Cachalot’ involved getting a Day Skipper ‘ticket’ to satisfy the requirements of the insurers.
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History
‘Cachalot’ sails to the Deben, 2005
After purchasing ‘Cachalot’, it’s time to decide where to keep her . . .
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History
Return to Dunkirk, 1990
‘Cachalot’ is a member of the Association of Dunkirk Little Ships (ADLS) and listed amongst the vessels requisitioned to assist in the evacuation of Dunkirk, 1940, known as ‘Operation Dynamo’.
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History
Restoration and research, 1977
A new owner sought information about ‘Cachalot’ from OGA members via the quarterly newsletter in 1977.
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