‘Cachalette’: aka ‘the little boat’
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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A new sail for ‘Cachalette’
With nine miles of river downstream and another three or four upstream, under Wilford Bridge, the River Deben provides great opportunities at most states of the tide.
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Kayaks & ‘Cachalette’: 2022
There’s a lively community of river users on the Deben including kayakers, paddle boarders, swimmers and sailors.
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Messing about on the river
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.
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Electric outboard & 2 kayaks!
In 2020 we took delivery of a Torqueedo outboard, for use on both ‘Cachalot’ and ‘Cachalette’, then we bought two kayaks!
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‘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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‘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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‘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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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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