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We are a retired American couple living in France, enjoying the good life with our cats. Our house is in a small hamlet among the Ste. Foy vines. We also have a sailboat that the male half of the spousal unit sailed across the Atlantic in the summer of 08. When the weather warms we will start to visit the sailing ports of Europe. Our stories chronicle our life in France: the good life, the hard life, and the sailing life.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Petillant's new home


Finding a slip for a boat the size of Petillant is not easy. In France there are too many boats chasing too few slips. We found a new marina at the top of the Garonne river that had 2 slips that could accommodate our boat. We decided to take out a lease on the slip so that we would not get bumped from it by another boat. So as of January we have a secure slip and the marina moved the boat for us. When we visited Petillant last Thursday to see how she fared in the recent 2 tempetes she was in her new slip. She sustained some damage to the canvas in the storms but nothing worse. Quite a relief.

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