February 10 SPINNAKER - Evans Bay Yacht & Motor Boat Club
February 10 SPINNAKER - Evans Bay Yacht & Motor Boat Club February 10 SPINNAKER - Evans Bay Yacht & Motor Boat Club
The SpinnakerA number of Wellingtonians visited us on our journey including my mate Neil Gray and my sister Jennifer whojoined me in Paris while Wendy headed back to NZ for a month (arrival of grandchild number 3). It is special toshare these times with friends and family.Having explored Paris I headed off with my fresh crew for the final 250nm and 57 locks to Calais. Thehighlight of this passage was the 6km long Grand Souterrian tunnel, where we were towed through behind twopeniches by an electric tug. This tunnel was built using prisoner of war labour about 1802. Quite an experience.When we got to Calais Neil stayed an extra couple of days to help put the mast back up for which I am evergrateful.The statistics for the canal passage 788nm, 226 locks, about 8 lifting bridges, the Eiffel aqueduct, two tunnels(1km and 6km), ran aground more times than I can remember, towed off by helpful boaties 3 times.On a canal wall in LyonYes, that is a nuclear reactorTypical rural French canal- 16 -
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The SpinnakerA number of Wellingtonians visited us on our journey including my mate Neil Gray and my sister Jennifer whojoined me in Paris while Wendy headed back to NZ for a month (arrival of grandchild number 3). It is special toshare these times with friends and family.Having explored Paris I headed off with my fresh crew for the final 250nm and 57 locks to Calais. Thehighlight of this passage was the 6km long Grand Souterrian tunnel, where we were towed through behind twopeniches by an electric tug. This tunnel was built using prisoner of war labour about 1802. Quite an experience.When we got to Calais Neil stayed an extra couple of days to help put the mast back up for which I am evergrateful.The statistics for the canal passage 788nm, 226 locks, about 8 lifting bridges, the Eiffel aqueduct, two tunnels(1km and 6km), ran aground more times than I can remember, towed off by helpful boaties 3 times.On a canal wall in LyonYes, that is a nuclear reactorTypical rural French canal- 16 -
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