26th July: New weather station
The Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station which supplies data for the “St Denys weather” pages on Seatern Diaries has become unreliable yet again. The system...
Diary Entry / 2018 / July: "RNLI and Swallow Raid"
by Peter Taylor · Published 26/07/2018 · Last modified 30/07/2018
The Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station which supplies data for the “St Denys weather” pages on Seatern Diaries has become unreliable yet again. The system...
Diary Entry / 2018 / August: "started hot!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 08/08/2018 · Last modified 07/09/2018
Cowes Week started on the 4th so on the 5th I took my longest telephoto lens with me for the 12 – 16 hrs watch...
2018 / Sailing Log (2018) / August: "started hot!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 09/08/2018 · Last modified 22/02/2023
Drifting and sailing down the western Solent, discovering the back eddy at the Trap, and turning off Milford-on-Sea. Back through some of the Cowes Week racing fleets!
2018 / Photo Album / August: "started hot!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 09/08/2018 · Last modified 16/08/2018
Photos from a two tide sail/drift out to the North Channel at Hurst. Turned near North head buoy off Milford on Sea and then back through Cowes Week racing fleets.
2018 / About Seatern / August: "started hot!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/08/2018 · Last modified 18/08/2018
I finally repaired the toilet seat lid… it’s needed doing for two or three years but somehow I never got round to it! The toilet...
NCI (2018) / NCI Watch-Keeping Summary
by Peter Taylor · Published 18/08/2018 · Last modified 31/01/2019
This is a summary record of my NCI watch keeping periods and other NCI activities during July to December 2018 kept for my own records. indicates...
Most of these photos were taken with good quality DSLR either with a wide range zoom lens or a large telephoto zoom. 12th August: The...
Photographs from a two tide trip where I hoped to get to Hengistbury Head but turned back at Chewton Bunny in case the wind dropped.
2018 / Sailing Log (2018) / August: "started hot!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 24/08/2018 · Last modified 05/10/2018
A whole day trip past Hurst Narrows and hoping to get to Hengistbury Head. However i was worried that the wind would drop and turned back at Chewton Bunny, a valley or chine in Highcliffe which is a nature reserve.
Coming back from Chewton Bunny I’d made a mess of furling the asymmetric spinnaker before gybing. This was the first time things had gone wrong...