Days gone by: Totland Paella
A couple of weeks ago a friend, “E.T.”, gave me some prints which he had recently scanned. They dated back to an event, probably in...
A couple of weeks ago a friend, “E.T.”, gave me some prints which he had recently scanned. They dated back to an event, probably in...
Diary Entry / 2019 / March-April: Windy at first
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/04/2019 · Last modified 03/05/2019
Sorting out the living room seems to have taken so much of my time recently. Even getting the sails back on Seatern was as much...
Diary Entry / 2019 / NCI (2019) / March-April: Windy at first
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/05/2019
I’ve been concerned that Watchkeepers are often under-estimating the Sea State in the hourly met reports. This concern was brought to a head on Sunday...
This post makes available in PDF form a document describing the development of a Sea State Guide for the NCI Calshot Tower station.
A BBC News item featuring Liz Kent and Sea Surface Temperature research at the National Oceanography Centre.
During the afternoon of the last day in April I read a whole book. “Losing Earth” by Nathaniel Rich had been “Book of the Week”...
Diary Entry / 2019 / May: Season starts?
by Peter Taylor · Published 05/05/2019 · Last modified 14/06/2019
With friends Zoe and Wendy, visited the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth. I hadn’t been there for years and was reminded that it is both a...
Photo Album 2019 / 2019 / May: Season starts?
by Peter Taylor · Published 15/05/2019 · Last modified 17/05/2019
Photos from the first sail of 2019 – out to the Needles, then around the Shingles Bank and back via the North Channel (Diary entry to come)
Portsmouth Tides: HT 0700, LT 1230, HT 1930; Out: 0515 – 0851; back: 1748 – 2200; 0530 Weather: SB – LR: east 4 or 5;...
Diary Entry / 2019 / May: Season starts?
by Peter Taylor · Published 23/05/2019 · Last modified 14/06/2019
Spent the day at Exbury Gardens (near Beaulieu) with friends Wendy Leeks and Zoe Shelley. In the morning we walked down to the Beaulieu River....