Vessel Name: | THE WAFU |
Vessel Make/Model: | Beneteau 325 |
Hailing Port: | Medway Yacht Club |
Crew: | Mike, Andy, Henry & Barry |
About: | 4 Co Owners all members of the Medway Yacht Club in Kent, UK |
Having got Wafu to Paris the rest of the chaps returned to the UK and left me onboard, where I was joined by Jane, my Partner, and three of our offspring with two of their partners. The cheapest rooms in Paris !, moored in the Paris Arsenal right by the Bastille... Fantastic.
Having taken the mast of and posted it to Marseille we left Le Havre for Paris and our first stop was to be Rouen. Having moored overnight in Honfleur so as to get an easier start in the morning we set of on the tide and were carried up the seine to Rouen, make sure you time the tides correctly as there are very few places to moor before Rouen. We were now out of the tidal seine and continued on to Paris going through some big commercial locks and some lovely small towns
'The Wafu' was the brainchild of Andy, who decided he wanted to own a yacht to sail in the Med and that he also wanted partners to share the cost and the experience. So he purchased a Beneteau 325 in Holland, sailed it back and asked around the club (Medway Yacht Club) for anybody that may be interested [...]