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Summers Sailing Kendra The sailing adventures of the Summers family (Jon, Elaine and sons Billy & Jake).

Some of you may know, some of you may not, some may have heard rumour but we are finally departing on our sailing adventure next Spring. The seed of this idea was sown seven years ago and after many years of planning, building projects and improving our sailing skills we bought our boat in March 2022. She is an Oyster 45 (the 45 being length in feet) built in the year 2000 and we had the unusual o

pportunity to rename her, choosing ‘Kendra’ meaning water-baby. Our two youngest kids Billy and Jake (who will be 11 and 10 when we go) are coming with us as we can’t afford boarding school (joking…or am I?!) Our other three, Georgie, Fraser and Diggs are all off pursuing their own adventures and careers but will, I am sure, be joining us at various points in our travels. This does of course mean taking Billy and Jake out of mainstream school in the UK and homeschooling them, or more accurately boat-schooling them. This will be a challenge for us all but apparently one of us has a weeny bit more patience for teaching than the other – I will let you work out who that is! The very loose plan is for us to move on to the boat next April and sail up to the west coast of Scotland, spending 2-3 months sailing to some of the beautiful islands and coast there and, most importantly using our challenging home waters to really get to grips with the boat and further improve our sailing skills. We will sail back down from Scotland in July and across the Bay of Biscay to northern Spain in August. From there we will sail down the Portuguese coast and over to Madeira, the Canaries, Cape Verde islands and, all being well, across the Atlantic to the Caribbean in December (ish!) As I said it is a loose plan and we are going to take each day and week as it comes, moving on to the next step when we, and that includes Kendra, are all ready and able.

Watching Arsenal v Man U with Elaine’s dad and stepmum😀 The Summers are Gooners for the day! ❤️🤍
12/01/2025

Watching Arsenal v Man U with Elaine’s dad and stepmum😀
The Summers are Gooners for the day! ❤️🤍

Possibly the best use for old paper charts now! 😂
09/01/2025

Possibly the best use for old paper charts now! 😂

Happy New Year 2025 from all of us on Kendra to all of you wherever you are in the world🍾🎉😀We have taken full advantage ...
01/01/2025

Happy New Year 2025 from all of us on Kendra to all of you wherever you are in the world🍾🎉😀

We have taken full advantage of some settled, sunny weather to anchor with our boat buddies on Positive Waves in the amazing Blue Lagoon off the tiny Maltese island of Comino - population 2! The water is crystal clear and the kids have been enjoying themselves on the paddle boards, exploring all the caves nearby.

Fantastic rainbow filled Maltese Boxing Day run 🌈🌈🌈 😀😀😀
26/12/2024

Fantastic rainbow filled Maltese Boxing Day run 🌈🌈🌈 😀😀😀

Check out my run on Strava.

Merry Christmas to family and friends around the world from all of us on Kendra! Hope you’re all having a wonderful time...
25/12/2024

Merry Christmas to family and friends around the world from all of us on Kendra! Hope you’re all having a wonderful time.

We’ve had so much fun with our boat buddies Hans, Kristen, Freja and Matilda on Positive Waves with a Swedish Christmas Eve involving lots of picked fish and alcohol followed by a traditional British Christmas Day dinner today.

Apologies if any of you were still eating and scrolled to the photo of Jon modelling his present from Hans!! 😂😂😂

Since we returned to Malta from our U.K. visit we have been catching up with our friends on Positive Waves, who had rath...
22/12/2024

Since we returned to Malta from our U.K. visit we have been catching up with our friends on Positive Waves, who had rather an epic passage over from Sicily 🌊💨🤢
We’ve also been to Valletta a few times where things are looking extremely Christmassy. The boys have found a football club to train with (Sliema Wanderers) and will become super fit as they train 4 times a week!

…….and just like that we are safely back at the boat in Malta after a bit of a bumpy, turbulent landing! Jake’s constant...
12/12/2024

…….and just like that we are safely back at the boat in Malta after a bit of a bumpy, turbulent landing! Jake’s constant narration about the pilot getting confused in the clouds and telling us to ‘brace for impact when we land as that’s what Ryanair landings are like’ amused us but not sure about the rest of the passengers!! 😂😂

Farewell U.K. family and friends! We’ve loved our two weeks back in the U.K. catching up with you all and special thanks...
12/12/2024

Farewell U.K. family and friends! We’ve loved our two weeks back in the U.K. catching up with you all and special thanks to Anne (Jon’s mum), Heather & Andy and Gill for so kindly putting us up. We’ll be back next year! 😀❤️xx

This popped up on my feed - from 7 years ago! 😀❤️
10/12/2024

This popped up on my feed - from 7 years ago! 😀❤️

We have had a lovely few days travelling around the West Country visiting family and friends, celebrating Jon & his niec...
10/12/2024

We have had a lovely few days travelling around the West Country visiting family and friends, celebrating Jon & his niece Verity’s birthdays and meeting our 14 week old great-nephew, Alastair. 😀

Lunch at the home of cider! It would be rude not to sample their wares 😀🍎 🍏
03/12/2024

Lunch at the home of cider! It would be rude not to sample their wares 😀🍎 🍏

02/12/2024

Does anyone have a large hard cased suitcase they want to get rid of please? 😀

I have definitely missed U.K. runs! 😀
01/12/2024

I have definitely missed U.K. runs! 😀

Check out my run on Strava.

01/12/2024
4-0 to the City!! A great result for all of us and the Elaine curse has finally been broken after 15 years 😂
30/11/2024

4-0 to the City!! A great result for all of us and the Elaine curse has finally been broken after 15 years 😂

Bristol City v Plymouth Argyle with Grampy, Diggs & Sarah (Jon’s dad, son & sister). Come on you Reds! ❤️Elaine is feeli...
30/11/2024

Bristol City v Plymouth Argyle with Grampy, Diggs & Sarah (Jon’s dad, son & sister).

Come on you Reds! ❤️

Elaine is feeling the pressure being the ‘bad omen’ - every game she has ever watched City has lost!! In fact she was banned from going by Jon and Billy…..😂😂

After a pretty decent flight experience from Malta, including some fab views of the Alps and a sunset, we arrived into 4...
29/11/2024

After a pretty decent flight experience from Malta, including some fab views of the Alps and a sunset, we arrived into 4 degree Birmingham, a temperature we haven’t endured for nearly 2 years! We had a little ‘hiccup’ at the car rental (Elaine’s fault - top tip - try and remember your credit card PIN when hiring a car 😬) but eventually got it sorted, bought overpriced BK at the services and wended our way to Chew Stoke.

We are all settling in nicely thanks to Jon’s mum 😀

We are on our way after being fleeced €53 for some decidedly average baguettes and sandwiches - my tuna poke bowl was ni...
28/11/2024

We are on our way after being fleeced €53 for some decidedly average baguettes and sandwiches - my tuna poke bowl was nice though! 😂 See you laterzzzz…..

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What a fantastic first sailing season in the Med!!

The outboard survived its saltwater dunking thanks to expert mechanic Jon. Billy and Jake also had a very useful lesson in 2 stroke engine repair. All ok after last night’s 60 knot beating - just sitting out Mistral winds of potentially 40 knots…for the next 4 days 🙄😕

Well what did happen next? 60 knots of wind happened causing absolute chaos in the anchorage here for 30 mins, which seemed to last an eternity!! Dinghy flipped (with outboard on) but somehow miraculously righted itself. All the boats here held fast on their anchors. A windlass issue did cause one of the boats near us to get rather close at a few points but all calm and ok now. Looking at the millpond outside now you’d think it had never happened! This weeks forecasted Mistral winds of 30-40knots will seem a ‘breeze’ now….

Rather spectacular lightning show last night!!
Rather spectacular lightning show last night!!

Rather spectacular lightning show last night in the anchorage!! ⚡️⚡️💨💨

The creepy goat people ….!😂

Celebrating our 1 year leaving the U.K. anniversary by…..sheltering from thunderstorms and torrential rain!! How apt 😂😂😂
Celebrating our 1 year leaving the U.K. anniversary by…..sheltering from thunderstorms and torrential rain!! How apt 😂😂😂

Celebrating our 1 year anniversary leaving the U.K. by….sheltering from thunderstorms and torrential rain. How apt!! 😂😂😂

Party night at La Forteleza, Pollença
Party night at La Forteleza, Pollença

It’s party night at La Forteleza, Pollença! 😂😂

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