Sailing
On Good Friday, 2023 we were all ready to depart the Tidemill once there was enough water over the sill.
Read more “Easter weekend, 2023: out in the Deben”
Maintenance
It’s a record that we’re out in the river already: Good Friday, 7 April, 2023!
Read more “Fitting out, 2023”
History
During our European road trip in early 2023, we spent a couple of hours wandering the quaysides of Sète in the Mediterranean sunshine, trying to find where ‘Cachalot’ may have moored in 1955.
Read more “Where was ‘Cachalot’ in 1955?”
Sail, oar & paddle
There’s a lively community of river users on the Deben including kayakers, paddle boarders, swimmers and sailors.
Read more “Kayaks & ‘Cachalette’: 2022”
Sailing
June 2022 found Steve with Ben and PJ as crew at the Classics Regatta.
Read more “Suffolk Yacht Harbour Classics, 2022”
Sail, oar & paddle
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”
Sailing
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”
Sailing
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”
Sail, oar & paddle
In 2020 we took delivery of a Torqeedo outboard, for use on both ‘Cachalot’ and ‘Cachalette’, then we bought two kayaks!
Read more “Electric outboard & 2 kayaks!”
Sailing
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!”
Sailing
‘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’”
Maintenance
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”
Sailing
With Simon and Ricarda as crew, we looked forward to joining the OGA East Coast Cruise, July 2021.
Read more “OGA Summer Cruise, 2021”
Sailing
Since her launch in August, 2017, ‘Cachalot’ has never actually left the Deben!
Read more “Out of the River Deben at last, 2021”
History
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”
Sailing
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”
Sailing
Now we’re afloat, we were invited to join in with Maritime Woodbridge, 2018 in the Town Dock.
Read more “Woodbridge Maritime Festival, 2018”
Sail, oar & paddle
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”
Sail, oar & paddle
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”
Sail, oar & paddle
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’”