Kayaks & ‘Cachalette’: 2022
There’s a lively community of river users on the Deben including kayakers, paddle boarders, swimmers and sailors.
Read more “Kayaks & ‘Cachalette’: 2022”There’s a lively community of river users on the Deben including kayakers, paddle boarders, swimmers and sailors.
Read more “Kayaks & ‘Cachalette’: 2022” →June 2022 found Steve with Ben and PJ as crew at the Classics Regatta.
Read more “Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classics, 2022” →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.
Read more “Messing about on the river” →Steve and Ben sail ‘Cachalot’ down to the River Blackwater to watch the Barge and Smack Race, 6 August, 2022.
Read more “To the River Blackwater and back, 2022” →Back to the Tidemill after the Classic Yacht Regatta, it was time to get ready for the OGA East Coast Cruise, July 2022.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2022” →In 2020 we took delivery of a Torqueedo outboard, for use on both ‘Cachalot’ and ‘Cachalette’, then we bought two kayaks!
Read more “Electric outboard & 2 kayaks!” →Steve M’s been promising to come up to sail with us to check out the performance of our Ratsey & Lapthorn sails.
Read more “Out with the sailmaker!” →‘Tannhauser’ is declared ready for her first trip out of the Marina. Ben and Steve decide to go out together when PJ arrives on Friday, 17 June.
Read more “Sailing in company with ‘Tannhauser’” →In 2018 we decided that maintenance in the back garden was really too challenging and in 2021 we moved ‘Cachalette’ down to Suffolk permanently.
Read more “‘Cachalette’: winter maintenance” →With Simon and Ricarda as crew, we looked forward to joining the OGA East Coast Cruise, July 2021.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2021” →Since her launch in August, 2017, ‘Cachalot’ has never actually left the Deben!
Read more “Out of the River Deben at last, 2021” →Early in 2021 we received an email via the ‘Cachalot’ website from Tom Corbett, owner of ‘Cachalot’ between 1970 – 1975.
Read more “A special visitor” →As a national ‘lockdown’ looked increasingly likely, Steve drove to Suffolk on 14 March, 2020 to check on ‘Cachalot’, just in case we’d have to leave her for another few months.
Read more “‘Lockdown’ in the River Deben” →Now we’re afloat, we were invited to join in with Maritime Woodbridge, 2018 in the Town Dock.
Read more “Woodbridge Maritime Festival, 2018” →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.
Read more “‘Cachalette’: the first ten years” →There was quite a lot of research to do before launching ‘Cachalette’ in order to decide where we were going to keep her.
Read more “‘Cachalette’ launch, 2010” →As Steve was restoring ‘Cachalot’, he was already thinking about a tender, so why not build one with similarly elegant lines?
Read more “Iain Oughtred ‘Guillemot’” →Starting to sail with ‘Cachalot’ involved getting a Day Skipper ‘ticket’ to satisfy the requirements of the insurers.
Read more “Summer sailing, 2006” →After purchasing ‘Cachalot’, it’s time to decide where to keep her . . .
Read more “‘Cachalot’ sails to the Deben, 2005” →Gone are the handwritten entries with signature and official stamp on broadsheet-sized manilla folded into the cloth-bound ‘blue book’. Since the 1990s the Certificate of British Registry is simply a laminated piece of A4 card, printed in plain type and renewable every five years.
Read more “Recent owners” →