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Riding La Vosges

Posted on October 21, 2019by Abbey

I got on my bike and I rode. I wasn’t feeling brave. I wasn’t sure where I was going. I wasn’t sure what to expect. So I just rode.  I rode from Berlin and headed for Las Vosges in France 861km/535 Miles. I’d found a campsite online and despite the fact that it was fully […]

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Dover to Germany and The Petrollettes

Posted on September 8, 2019September 8, 2019by Abbey

I set off after work on Wednesday. I’d spent 4 days doing the impossible, a Dunkirk Little Ship called Breda needed her entire Garboard plank replacing. This is the first plank to be laid on a wooden boat, right up against the keel. To do it you need to slide ya self down the concrete, […]

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How I Ended up Riding Europe on a Motorcycle

Posted on September 8, 2019September 8, 2019by Abbey

It’s been one hell of a summer guys n gals. I’m not really sure where to begin. I guess for a long time I didn’t really have a lot to write about or maybe I had nothing to be proud enough of to write it down n tell the world.  I was living in a […]

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New Year, New Dreams, New Boats

Posted on January 6, 2019by Abbey

So I guess I should start by saying a big boat buildy Happy New Year to you all and thanks for reading for so long! I was contemplating a long and sentimental New Year post for Facebook but then I remembered how long it’s been since I posted on here so I figured I’d treat […]

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Bad Ass Bitches

Posted on August 6, 2018by Abbey

So this blog is mildly off topic in many ways but in other ways its totally on point. Nothing about boats though, just a whole lot of bad ass women doing bad ass things.   Mindlessly perusing facebook one afternoon I found this group of girls from east London who run a motorcycle group called […]

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Boats, Bikes, Bruises n Breda

Posted on March 3, 2018January 24, 2019by Abbey

Hello everybody! Im still alive! Apologies for abandoning you all for so long. I’ve concocted a pretty good line of excuses for my shocking behaviour. Firstly this wonderful little insight into my slightly strange and grubby life meant that people are now actually paying me to write! Yes money, real life queens head bucks. So […]

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Little Miss Sunshine

Posted on June 28, 2017January 24, 2019by Abbey

Apologies for the lack of blogs lately, my evenings have been taken up by doing paid writing work, painting dinghies and eating museli. Although the extra doh is nice I can tell ya now that its way more fun to write to you guys than it is to glorify the crappy benefits of overpriced MDF […]

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The Worlds Spinning too fast n I’d Like to Get Off!

Posted on May 16, 2017January 24, 2019by Abbey

You know sometimes you get that feeling, a bit like dejavu. Almost as if you’re on the outside of your own life looking in at whatever it is you’re up to and you think “how on earth did I end up here?”. Well that was the entire of April for me….come to think of it […]

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The Grand Finale

Posted on April 5, 2017January 24, 2019by Abbey

Many of you will know that the deadline of Peggotty was something that I had been dreading. After 72 days/1728 hours of intense boat building, I have never had so much fun, learnt so much or worked so hard. The thought of finishing her and going back to odd jobs, leaving the safety of my […]

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The Off Cut Life

Posted on March 7, 2017January 24, 2019by Abbey

Not only do I not live on the cut but I have also spent most of my life surviving on off cuts. I was talking to someone the other day who asked me what the budget was for the restoration of my boat and aside from “as little as possible” I didn’t really have an […]

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Bad Ass Bitches - 06 Aug , 2018

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