Grey Dove - Adventures in a Heavenly Twins Catamaran

An occasional lighthearted (mostly!) look at life sailing a small catamaran away from home.

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10 June 2023 | Anstruther
11 May 2023 | BURNTISLAND, FIFE
31 October 2021 | Little Vathi.
20 October 2021 | Sami
12 July 2021 | Granton
08 July 2021 | Granton
20 May 2021 | Granton Royal Forth Yacht Club
20 May 2021 | Kinghorn
10 May 2021 | Burntisland
28 September 2020 | Rive Almond
27 September 2020 | Cramond SC Jetty
27 September 2020 | Cramond
11 July 2020 | Newhaven Fish Jetty
11 July 2020 | Firth of Forth
07 July 2020 | Burntisland Sailing Club pontoons
18 August 2017

The Culprit

31 July 2017 | Brighton
sunny, occasional breeze
Having struggled with boat speed when the wind was dead astern we decided to break out the Code Zero reacher and hoist it to check out the furler. There was little or no wind in the marina so up she went fine and dandy. As Sod's Law dictates, the moment the sail was up a whiff of a zephyr rippled across the harbour, cracking the sheets and catching me a sore one across the chest. I heard a crack and an "OOOF" from the jetty and looked round just in time to see Chris keel over on the pontoon and lie flat on his back with his feet up on a tender. A high speed bight in the lazy sheet had whacked him on the temple sharply enough to cause concussion which we didn't realise until we got to Ramsgate when his continued nausea resulted in an emergency trip to the hospital for a CT scan. Fortunately no permanent damage was done, it was his head after all...
Here is the culprit back in its bag.
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Vessel Name: Grey Dove
Vessel Make/Model: Modified Heavenly Twins 26
Hailing Port: Kinghorn
Crew: David Holdsworth BEM
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Greydove is a mk3/4 Heavenly Twins highly modified with straight stems and a high aspect ratio fully battened modern catamaran rig with an 11 metre mast. She goes! (for an old girl anyway). Sailing around the Forth, West Coast and Western Isles of Scotland with a scuba diving skipper we have [...]
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