Family Sailing Adventures in a Lifting Keel Dufour 32 Integral

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First Sail of 2012

13 April 2012 | Poole
Marcus
El Nino was launched after spending the winter ashore last Tuesday:

El Nino is launched

Yesterday, myself, Dan Spry and James Whitty took El Nino out for her first sail of the season. A NW 3 was forecast with the chance of some showers. To begin with there was almost no wind at all and we made our way slowly out towards Old Harry. About to give up and head back in the wind started to pick up so we headed back out to sea and ended up having a cracking good sail!



More images in the gallery.



Some of James' Instagrams:

http://instagr.am/p/JUcnE8S5RA/
http://instagr.am/p/JUOY5vS5ea/
http://instagr.am/p/JULOj8S5eH/
http://instagr.am/p/JUHjOxy5dw/

Anyone know of a way to embed someone else's instagram photos?
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Vessel Name: El Nino
Vessel Make/Model: Dufour 32 Integral
Hailing Port: Poole
Crew: Marcus, Angela, Ben, Jamie, Maria
About: Maria: 1 Jamie: 3.5 Ben: 5 Angela: ? Marcus: ??
Extra:
El Nino is a lifting keel Dufour 32. She replaces our previous boat, a larger, deeper Hanse 371 which allowed Ange and I to sail to distant shores. But now, with a young and busy family snatching short weekends and days here and there to sail out of shallow Poole harbour, the smaller, lift keel [...]
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