After a long hard day of navigation

There's nothing better than to get your head down in a nice comfy bed.


This is where I get my head down:

And this is where Anna gets her head down:

For the non-technically minded, these are the heads. I think they're called that cause they're where you go when you should have your head down, but haven't because old-age has set in and you need to get up in the middle of the night.

The important bit of the boat

Although the Nav Room is a bit sparse. This area of the boat is fully equipped. Kettle, teapot and box of wine. Useful for endless cups of tea when trying to work out where we are and then giving up and getting drunk as we have no idea and are past caring.

Mission Control

This is what we laughingly refer to as the Nav Room.
GPS, VHF and a vertical chart table.
Fortunately, Bugsy seems to have been to most of the places we want to go to and quite often finds her own way there. 
Also, we now have Google Latitude on my phone, so Anna can ring up one of our friends and they can tell us if we're going the wrong way.

An Aerial View

Some more photos of Bugsy

Here she is in Dover Marina where she normally lives.

A nice piccie of me..

Taken by Anna when we were somewhere between Dover & Eastbourne this summer.

Note our highly professional gooseswinging technique :-)

Collins Tandem Keel

Whenever we have her lifted out, people say, "that's a funny keel". Well, I suppose it is.

First blog entry

This will probably be a fairly dull blog about the ramblings of our little Beneteau First 30e, "Balmain Bug".