First sail of 2025 - Sunshine at Last

We've been going down to Maunie regularly over the winter, but mostly to check that she's OK after a succession of gales, named storms and generally poor weather, so it was a welcome change to have some cold, sunny and reasonably breezy conditions this week.

So we had a lovely shake-down sail in Start Bay on Tuesday; it was great to shake the cobwebs off and remind ourselves of how to do it. The boat performed perfectly and, even though we were the only yacht on the water, the sunshine saw a lot of people visiting their moored boats to start waking them up from winter hibernation.

This is a short video to give you an idea of the day - click here to view it.

We hope it's the beginning of a good sailing season!