THE END OF AN ERA

Now that was a really hard decision. It felt like betrayal, a divorce. New in 2003, we’d loved every moment on our gorgeous Fleming 55, Play d’eau. Our heads battled with our hearts, but whilst in the UK in the summer, we made the agonising decision to sell her, thereby ending more than 30 years of boating.

She’d taken us so safely through the inland waterways of Holland, along the UK’s south coast from Dover to Falmouth and the Isles of Scilly, the coasts of Normandy and north Brittany, and our favourite area by far, the west coast of France. And we mustn’t forget the many miles of Motor Boats Monthly Cruises in Company under her waterline.