Memories of a cruise to Cherbourg in 1953

Cherbourg trip 1953 - on deck

By Anthony Sargent, and Betty Sargent who wrote ‘SOLLYA GOES FOREIGN’ for the Yachting Monthly in 1953.

We have owned our little sloop for three years now and having cruised with the family to Salcombe two years running, we decided that it was time for ‘Sollya’ and the boys to cross the Channel. We planned to go first to Cherbourg and then slowly make our way via Alderney and St.Peter port, and then home.

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Submitted on 12th June 2013