Fitting out and OGA Deben Rally
After a month away on our rail trip to Greece in March and a couple of days in London for the Classic Boat Awards our first visit to Suffolk was 24 April this year.
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Category: Sail, oar & paddle
Outboard, dinghies and paddling
Before the trip to Dunkirk this year, there was quite a bit of thought about replacing the rather elderly rubber dinghy on ‘Cachalot’. We also needed a new outboard . . .
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Sailing a Gaffling & a Norfolk Wherry
Sadly, the new van can’t have a towbar fitted and having sold the Freelander we can’t take ‘Cachalette’ to events in other parts of the country . . . however, at the end of this season we enjoyed sailing on Ullswater and the Norfolk Broads.
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Southwold Rally and a lost outboard
We decided to join the OGA Rally at Southwold Sailing Club at the end of June, 2024, taking ‘Cachalette’ and the kayak.
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‘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 Torqeedo 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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