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It all started about ten years ago, sitting on a headland watching the yachts go by while the kids played on the beach...........
"Wouldn't it be great to just get on your own boat and sail where-ever you want".
"Why don't we" I replied and the rest of that sunny August afternoon was spent planning the trip...............the fact that neither of us had sailed in our lives just didn't come into it.
That Autumn we enrolled on a dinghy sailing course at Carsington reservoir and that was the start of our ten year plan.
The plan was simple really, over the next ten years we would learn all we could about sailing, maybe buy a boat and sail as much as possible, as long as we both still enjoyed it. The kids would have been due to finish University by then if that was their wish and so, we would at that time consider buying a boat big enough to take us anywhere we might wish to go. No plan on where, just the ability to get there.
As it turned out, Rum Tum is now our third boat and we are now at the final preparation stage before casting our lines.
Our first boat, Nutmeg was an Etap 20 Trailer sailor, ideal for us as we could sail it at Carsington and then hitch it up and take it to the coast. With the kids growing up so quickly and our passion for sailing at sea we soon sold her to buy "Barrosa" a Trintella 29.
Barrosa was a beautiful, long-keeled boat and was more than capable of taking us anywhere we wished. We had some great summers sailing up the west coast of Scotland. We actually purchased her in Falmouth and the first task was to sail her to our berth in Liverpool. This turned into quite an adventure for us, the first time we had taken any boat offshore.
Anyhow, three years later we met a couple who had finished a nine year circumnavigation in a Catamaran. One afternoon spent with them made us realise this was the way to go and we sold Barrosa to buy Rum Tum.
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