Crystal Blues

This Is My Kind Of Transport - The Club Launch At NYAC Pelham Brings Us Ashore In Fine Style With unexpected repairs and maintenanc...

Falcon 9, 1st Stage Burn Titusville Florida, and nearby Cocoa Beach, are known for their proximity to Kennedy Space Center (KSC). We an...

The Langford Boys - Dean, Peter & Neil, Onboard Pete's Power Boat, Just Cruising Again A Warm Welcome In Williamstown ! Aft...

A visit to the Herreshoff Museum in Bristol, Road Island, was an essential stop for us on our New England cruise. We day sailed north from...

Pirate Bight, Norman Island Ah, the British Virgin Islands. Thirty years ago I sailed here, different boat, different life, differe...

Many of my childhood memories are associated with this place - my father bought his first boat (an 18ft Jubilee) out of this shed. My first...

Ley's father, Ray, was a toolmaker, machinist and engineer - there really wasn't much he couldn't build or repair. My own f...

Back in Australia we were fortunate to stay with our good friends Ray and Jan Pitt, who are regular visitors to Crystal Blues. We liv...

Seen here on the aft deck of Crystal Blues, Ley's mother "Edie" was always an enthusiastic visitor and loved her fishing - s...

We're leaving Crystal Blues in the marina at RCYC here in Cape Town and traveling to Australia to be with family for a few weeks....

To be honest, right through my childhood I was influenced by my fathers view of what was beautiful in a boat or a ship.  We did spend ...

When the lock gates in Darwin opened that October morning, we set out on a sailing adventure that is now 10 years in the making, and st...

Crazy Curved Buildings At The Marina That's us on the right, so keen to move, sitting here with our mainsail up in the marina. Only...

Barnacles and a solitary oyster living on the inlet fittings. Almost two years since we last applied anti-fouling paint, and the barnac...

Friday June 13, Lucky For Some Time flies when you are having fun and it flies even faster the older you get.  Neil and Ley celebrated ...

Shaun, Sarah, Harrison, Sam & Ley Seems like we can't keep away from Singapore. Now, our eldest son Shaun, wife Sarah and t...

Neil on a Skype video call to the team in Manila. It didn't take long for us settle into work mode again....the boat became the h...

The Great Escape Two months ago we thought our long standing love affair with Asia was about to end.  Crystal Blues and her crew were...

Some weeks back I wrote ( here ) of the difficulties we had experienced with barnacles fouling the sea water inlets on Crystal Blues in es...