Das Boot
Car all packed...lets hope we don't have to unpack it all for our French Douaniers.
Made it across the frontier. 1600 miles to go.
Welcome to Roobarb's Reach blog - how this is probably going to pan out
Welcome. So the blog is going to be in two parts. Part 1: Getting there. Going from Retiring and recovering from having three tendons re-attached in my shoulder - through the exercise of getting Non-Lucrative Visas and purchasing the boat - and getting it ready for a life afloat. This involves navigating Spanish bureaucracy, finding a boat, packing a life up and the preparations for a peripatetic life on a boat. Plus observations and everything in between with the ups and downs. Some nautical bollocks*, a fair amount of grumbling and a rollercoaster of hopes and desperation. Part 2: Out there. The boat will have a formal log (of course) and this records proper observations, such as wind, location, tack, speed, air pressure, course, and comments about the matter of fact state of affairs. The Blog is supposed to be a commentary on this, when we remember or have something funny to say. I will be posting pictures and my salty wit where possible. Mrs D will also...
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