Sail, oar & paddle
By 2022 we were quite proficient with paddling the kayaks, enjoying motoring in ‘Cachalette’ with the quiet outboard and her maintenance was much easier now she’s kept permanently at Robertsons Boatyard.
Read more “Messing about on the river”
Sailing
Steve and Ben sail ‘Cachalot’ down to the River Blackwater to watch the Barge and Smack Race, 6 August, 2022.
Read more “To the River Blackwater and back, 2022”
Sailing
Back to the Tidemill after the Classic Yacht Regatta, it was time to get ready for the OGA East Coast Cruise, July 2022.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2022”
Sail, oar & paddle
In 2020 we took delivery of a Torqeedo outboard, for use on both ‘Cachalot’ and ‘Cachalette’, then we bought two kayaks!
Read more “Electric outboard & 2 kayaks!”
Sailing
Steve M’s been promising to come up to sail with us to check out the performance of our Ratsey & Lapthorn sails.
Read more “Out with the sailmaker!”
Sailing
‘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.
Read more “Sailing in company with ‘Tannhauser’”
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.
Read more “‘Cachalette’: winter maintenance”
Sailing
With Simon and Ricarda as crew, we looked forward to joining the OGA East Coast Cruise, July 2021.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2021”
Sailing
Since her launch in August, 2017, ‘Cachalot’ has never actually left the Deben!
Read more “Out of the River Deben at last, 2021”
History
Early in 2021 we received an email via the ‘Cachalot’ website from Tom Corbett, owner of ‘Cachalot’ between 1970 – 1975.
Read more “A special visitor”
Sailing
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.
Read more “‘Lockdown’ in the River Deben”
History
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.
Read more “Recent owners”
Sailing
Now we’re afloat, we were invited to join in with Maritime Woodbridge, 2018 in the Town Dock.
Read more “Woodbridge Maritime Festival, 2018”
Sail, oar & paddle
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.
Read more “‘Cachalette’: the first ten years”
History
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.
Read more “Commemorated on stamps: 2015”
Sail, oar & paddle
There was quite a lot of research to do before launching ‘Cachalette’ in order to decide where we were going to keep her.
Read more “‘Cachalette’ launch, 2010”
Sail, oar & paddle
As Steve was restoring ‘Cachalot’, he was already thinking about a tender, so why not build one with similarly elegant lines?
Read more “Iain Oughtred ‘Guillemot’”
History
‘Cachalot’ has taken part in events run by the ADLS, including the 1990 ‘Return to Dunkirk’.
Read more “ADLS Rally: Ipswich”
Sailing
Starting to sail with ‘Cachalot’ involved getting a Day Skipper ‘ticket’ to satisfy the requirements of the insurers.
Read more “Summer sailing, 2006”
History
After purchasing ‘Cachalot’, it’s time to decide where to keep her . . .
Read more “‘Cachalot’ sails to the Deben, 2005”