Puffin - a 1937 Hillyard sailing yacht

Cor , lovely ….. must be so nice pootling around the Med….
Have you tried cleaning / blowing out the needle jets in the carburettor ?
I had that on an outboard once …. quite tricky doing it in situ bobbing around , trying not to drop anything straight into the water !

Taking apart the carburettor is the next step - have done it before and it’s a faff alright!

Yesterday I had an email from you. This is so exciting! My parents had Puffin in the 1950s (kept in Poole Harbour). In 2009 I collected my mother (Jocelyn Greenway)'s articles she had written about all our voyages in Puffin. These I put into the book Tom mentioned at the beginning of his blog i.e. 'Puffin's Log'. It's on my website http://www.delfrynpublications.co.uk. I know this is the same boat because of the odd position of the portholes on the port side and other details. It's been so interesting reading your blog. It's made me very happy to see Puffin being so cared for and enjoyed.

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This thread keeps on giving, one of my favourite reads. Rep all round.

Agreed, just the best.

Incredible new twist, I love it

Porquerolles

Mmm pork rolls

LFGSS = Looking For Great Sailing Stories, what an addition to this thread!

This is ridic, and I'm all for it.

🥰

Port Cros.

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Anchored off Ile des Embiez, home of Paul Ricard. A bit of a motor then a nice downwind sail from Ile d’Hyeres, took about 6 hrs for 17 or so miles, not very quick but very pleasant! Rowed ashore for a pizza and a pastis. Has been a good few days sailing, will write a longer update of the voyage and the boat soon

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After leaving Puffin at anchor for a couple of months on the Etang, I’ve now moved to winter moorings. A nice quiet sail up the coast, light winds, sunshine and some very nice anchorages. Now prepping the boat to be left alone for a few months. Spent this morning threading hosepipe onto the mooring lines to try and stop the chafe from the quay wall.

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What’s Puffins draft?

1 metre, long keel. Means I can get close in to anchor and also go up rivers and canals which is handy

I have been sailing a dinghy recently- had to pull the keel board up when it hit rocks so I appreciate how handy a shallow draft can be.

Rain may stop play today however

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I think it's spelt Trimaran.

That was there so the guy selling it could give it a clean. Not to me I would add.

If you didn't sail in the rain in Scotland you would never sail.

2200mm of annual rainfall here, 1500mm in Scotland.

*centreboard or daggerboard (not keel).

Also, sailing in the rain is underrated (good oilies dependent.)

I'm not sure it even counts as rain when the ambient temperature is in the mid to high 20s. Bermuda shorts, rather that oilies.

All tucked up for the winter in the south of France. Added an extra bit of tarp over the foredeck to try and keep the water out as front hatch is a bit leaky. Should’ve fitted an electric bilge pump but didn’t so will probably have to go back a couple of times in the next 4 months to pump the bilges. Have booked a haul out for the end of March so I can scrub and anti foul, also have a few other jobs to do: paint deck, strip and repaint toe-rail, replace outboard bracket as it has a crack in it, get bushings made for the wobbly rudder pintles, possibly re-varnish mast. Lots to do but hopefully will manage a month or so in the summer sailing to lovely anchorages so should be worth it! Then possibly through the canal du midi in September but that might not happen til 2026…

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looking very tidy - also quite envious of the weather there.

I’m so glad you didn’t sell this and continue to share the journey.