Extricating ourselves from our mooring in Rye was not helped by the fact that the channel looked too narrow for Hejira to turn around. So, we motored astern (reversed) up to a corner where we thought we had room to turn. With the sides of the channel being shallower, we disturbed a lot of brown... Continue Reading →

It was such a chore to replace the Silic antifouling with a top quality traditional hard antifouling, but it was necessary, and it was finally completed along with several other improvements, and Hejira was ready to return to her natural habitat. A crew working party installed the freshly serviced and laundered sails and after other... Continue Reading →