29th Mar – 6th April: NCI Calshot web site
Brian Roberts had suggested I might take over the Calshot NCI web pages and this was approved by the Calshot Committee on the Wednesday 23rd...
Diary Entry / March-April: "New Season?" / 2016 / NCI
by Peter Taylor · Published 06/04/2016 · Last modified 22/08/2017
Brian Roberts had suggested I might take over the Calshot NCI web pages and this was approved by the Calshot Committee on the Wednesday 23rd...
Diary Entry / March-April: "New Season?" / 2016
by Peter Taylor · Published 10/04/2016 · Last modified 01/08/2020
Spring tides and a strong east-south-easterly wind! There was only myself and Roy Pullinger, a trainee watchkeeper, on watch which seems a bit thin for...
Diary Entry / 2016 / May-June: "Slow Start"
by Peter Taylor · Published 03/05/2016 · Last modified 23/08/2017
It’s happened again! Just as there is at last some decent sailing weather, they stop me sailing! I had a small operation on my ear...
Diary Entry / 2016 / May-June: "Slow Start"
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/05/2016 · Last modified 23/08/2017
Early in the morning the firework store (across the River from where I live and on the main road approaches to Northam Bridge) caught fire....
Diary Entry / 2016 / NCI / May-June: "Slow Start"
by Peter Taylor · Published 22/05/2016 · Last modified 23/08/2017
I swapped to the 08 to 12 watch to take part in a joint exercise with the Calshot RNLI Lifeboat. The scenario was a lone...
Diary Entry / 2016 / NCI / May-June: "Slow Start"
by Peter Taylor · Published 29/05/2016 · Last modified 23/08/2017
This was seeming a relatively quiet watch. I was doing a stint on the desk when we saw jet skiers swimming just off the beach...
Diary Entry / 2016 / May-June: "Slow Start"
by Peter Taylor · Published 27/06/2016 · Last modified 23/08/2017
After trailing Seatern to west Wales last summer I had thought I might join this year’s Swallow Boats raid. However at the time I needed...
Diary Entry / 2016 / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!" / NCI
by Peter Taylor · Published 03/09/2016 · Last modified 09/09/2017
Ian Davis had asked if I would like to help him represent Calshot NCI at the Hamble River Sea Safety Day. It turned out to...
Diary Entry / 2016 / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/09/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
Having the river at the back of your house is wonderful, but it has it’s down sides! My house is on the edge of the...
Diary Entry / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!" / 2016 / NCI
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/09/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
I’d put myself down for helping man the National Coastwatch Institution stand at the Southampton Boat Show because I thought it would be interesting to...