29th August: Worth Matravers and Seacombe
Drove down to Worth Matravers today with friends Jon, Wendy, and Zoe and walked down to Seacombe ledge. In my postgraduate days at Southampton University...
Diary Entry / 2018 / August: "started hot!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 30/08/2018 · Last modified 07/09/2018
Drove down to Worth Matravers today with friends Jon, Wendy, and Zoe and walked down to Seacombe ledge. In my postgraduate days at Southampton University...
A full days sail in the eastern Solent going out past Portsmouth and to the edge of Bembridge Ledges. During the day I went close to each of the Solent Forts. On the way back lack of wind meant more motoring than I would have hoped.
Photos from a full days sail in the eastern Solent going out past Portsmouth and to the edge of Bembridge Ledges. On the way back lack of wind meant more motoring than I would have hoped.
Having sailed past Yarmouth a few times this year, I decided to take the ferry from Lymington and have a look at the coast from...
Photos taken using my iphone from a trip by ferry to Yarmouth and then walking along the coast to Colwell Bay and towards Totland Bay.
My “traditional” visit to the Boat Show by water… this year on the Friday, the first day. I left late on the early morning tide and sailed out into the Solent and towards Salt Mead until Seatern was halted by the flooding tide and I returned down Southampton water to the Boat Show.
Photos taken during a two tide sail out towards Salt Mead on the Isle of Wight, and then back for a look at the Boat Show from the water.
I was one of 6 Watchkeepers from NCI Calshot tower manning the NCI stand at the Southampton Boat Show. The NCI mobile display was much...
I made use of my “aged Southampton resident’s” free entry to the Boat Show to have a more leisurely wander around than was possible on...
The last few days of the Boat Show were marked by rain and lots of wind but then the following week, summer returned! On Wednesday...