We had 60 knt winds and were heeling even in the marina so was lucky returned in time to get the awning off and tie down the extraneous bits on deck. It was quit a struggle to walk along the pontoons.
Chris Bates is a Haverfordwest GP retiring at the end of March after 28 years at Winch Lane Surgery. Penny is a nurse in outpatients at Withybush Hospital and retires at the end of June. [...]
The Dream
To fulfil a lifelong ambition to sail independently around the world in a small boat following in the wake of heroes such as Joshua Slocombe and Sir Francis Chichester.
The Boat
L’esprit de la Mer is a 41 foot Beneteau yacht built for us in France in 2003
Capt pictured here with his pet seagull says
'Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans: it is lovely to be silly at the right moment'
and thinks it is far more important to find him a name so we are running a competition to find him a name and guess the miles he will have sailed by [...]
October 9th, which is World Hospice Day. Details soon on http://www.shalomstdavids.org
and
www.paulsartori.org.uk to raise money for Shalom and the Paul Sartori Foundation