This blog describes our family’s sailing trips, and what we learned along the way, about sailing, and doing things together.
It’s a personal account of our entry into the world of family cruising on our yacht, Mouflon, a Bavaria 38 based in Chatham Maritime Marina on the English east coast.
My father had a little yacht called One for the Road when my sister I were very small, but for me it all started just before I left school. We did a bit of dinghy sailing, and I was lucky enough to go on a short course sailing in the Solent, between England and the Isle of Wight. I was a week short of 18 at the time, but it was a memory which stayed with me.
And then, nothing. At least, not for a very long time. It was something I’d always wanted to try again, but I never really made the time. Until, that is, a few years ago when I was living in Slovakia. I mentioned it to Magdalena, my wife. She told her uncle Stano, who had a small yacht. And Stano wasted no time – he was delighted someone shared his interest and came down the very next weekend.
It was a lovely little boat, and he even let me take her out, (which very nearly ended in a capsize).
After that, I was hooked and went on several courses with the Hamble School of Yachting as soon as we moved back to the UK, eventually completing Day Skipper theory and practical courses in 2008. And I started reading a blog about a yacht called Magna Carta, and her family crew. I loved the idea of doing something together, something which would take us all away every weekend.
With my own small family growing, it was only a matter of time before we’d have a boat of our own. This blog is the story of what happens next.
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