Dragon Drascombe

I am writing to thank you for the excellent week that I spent with my two brothers (Gareth and Andrew) recently with Dragon Drascombe (13-20th September). Initially the main reason for arranging this was as part of celebrating my middle brother’s 70th birthday – as we have started doing for each other and that was certainly successful. I had also hoped that I would learn some proficiency at sailing a Drascombe Lugger – I had mentioned to you at the time of booking that I had bought one and had it stored at a site in Pembrokeshire where I have a holiday home. I told you that I had only used on a few occasions and had not got on very well with it but that I felt that the tides in Pembrokeshire I had to allow for were not helping. So I hoped that trying to sail a Lugger without…

Hi PhilBy now you will be very busy with the next group of sailors and we hope it is going well for you.We wanted to say ‘thank you’ for the ‘Dragon Drascombe experience’- we really enjoyed it and it was great to be able to explore the area even though the wind was so erratic. To have deep warm waters, no tides and a variety of local places to visit was a real bonus and our accommodation was top class.Please give our best wishes to Rob and Martin and you take care.Sandy & John Sandy and John’s visit really highlighted the social aspect side to Drascombe holidays. Meeting with other groups of Drascombe sailers who are generally like minded and great company. Discussing the days sailing and picking up tips from each other and sharing experiences. This all helps to make these Drascombe sailing holidays what they are.

We have just returned from 10 days of exploring the Ionian Islands in ‘Katerina’, one of Phil’s Drascombe Luggers based in Nidri – what a perfect holiday! We stayed in the Geni Garden Apartments (perfect location and perfect for our needs) and our lugger for our stay was moored on a pontoon in front of the apartments. Phil meets you on arrival and gives out all the necessary information on rigging and sailing the luggers, daily weather forecasts and information about the islands within reach for the day sailing. Phil also provides you with a chart, pilotage book, cool bag and picnic set for your boat! We sail a Cornish Coble in Jersey so, once assessed, Phil was happy to let us sail away.  We went much further than I had imagined we would be able to and visited, Spartakhori, Port Atheni, Sivota and Meganisi, in addition to spending days…

“Thanks for all the pics Phil. I have a few from my holiday you may like. Just wanted to say again how much I enjoyed the week we had sailing the lugger.  Ralph” Thank you to Ralph for the quick email and great pictures of his holiday.

We had a fabulous week towards the end of June in Lefkada with Dragon Drascombe, staying at the Geni Apartments with Jojo, our Lugger for the week, moored on the pontoon at the bottom of the gardens. The Geni apartments and grounds, with swimming pool, are a superb location from which to be based and have pretty much everything one could possibly need. The taxi met us at Preveza airport & we were soon dropped at Gailos Taverna to meet up with Phil who is Dragon Drascombe. We had the first of many lovely Greek meals before driving the half a mile to Geni to settle in. Phil took us through all the necessary aspects with the Lugger, from fore and aft mooring to rigging and using the outboard engine. He made it all so simple and unhurried which does help when getting used to a new boat, but essential…

Sooo..  What to do to celebrate reaching your 8th decade? This was the question I (and my much younger wife Anne) had to consider in time for this Spring. It did not take us long to come up with idea of a ‘whole family’ holiday in/on/near water in somewhere warm and inviting. You guessed it – the Ionian. Anne and I had spent a couple of holidays ‘luggering about in the sun’ both pre and post pandemic and we wondered if we could expand our normal routine of late morning motoring to a quiet bay or taverna, afternoon sail back and then a relaxing evening stroll from our usual base at Geni Gardens to something which would accommodate the diverse needs of 4 very sporty grandchildren aged 7 to 13,  and their discerning parents.  A couple of emails to Phil and we had a plan which we hoped would suit…

To be absolutely sure of Andrew’s two week family holiday he booked the Villa Eleanor early in 2022. As you will note from its description on the website it’s a 3 bedroom private villa set amongst the trees and it’s own garden overlooking Vliho Bay. It has all the facilities a family group would need and more. This includes a great outdoor covered terrace for outdoor living and dining, bbq area and a delightful pool. To round it all off just 50m’s away through the trees to the waters edge is the pontoon used to moor the Lugger The family were not disappointed . To accommodate their 6 adults I provided an additional Lugger, to keep each boat with just 3 persons in. “Being a drascombe Lugger owner for many years this has been on our wish list  and finally got round to organising it this year. This was a…

Rob and Jane gettiong to know the boat I fell in love with Drascombe boats on seeing one at the London Boat Show back in the ’70’s but never had the chance to sail one. I spotted one of Dragon Drascombes luggers while on Flotilla a few years ago and promised myself a trip one day, a dream I finally realised in May. My wife is a nervous sailor but Vliho provided a perfect introduction to the Lugger for her, the boats are really well laid out and maintained, the situation is idyllic and the accommodation is really good (we stayed at Geni Gardens), by the end of the week she was asking when we could come back. It was great to be able to pop into Nidri in the boat, pick up stuff for a picnic, then go and sail to a secluded beach for lunch and a swim.…