Currents off Lepe Country Park
At Lepe Country Park, the distance from the mainland across to the Isle of Wight is narrower than elsewhere in the Solent. This creates strong...
I got the repaired Tiller Pilot back at the start of June but the weather turned more like winter than spring or summer. Meanwhile I got involved with the setting up of a NCI Calshot Tower satellite station at Lepe Country Park. Warm weather returned by the month’s end but the Swallow Yachts Raid experienced an easterly gale!
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 10/06/2019 · Last modified 01/07/2019
At Lepe Country Park, the distance from the mainland across to the Isle of Wight is narrower than elsewhere in the Solent. This creates strong...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/06/2019 · Last modified 01/07/2019
Went to the Seawork exhibition, mainly to look at the ships! First vessel was the Damen shipyard Tug “YN 571727”; I guess it gets a...
2019 / About Seatern / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/07/2019 · Last modified 05/07/2019
While sailing on the 13th May the Garmin chart plotter started complaining of low battery volts. Possibly this was because the Tiller Pilot, which stopped...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/07/2019 · Last modified 19/07/2019
[NB this is my “Diary Entry”; Raid photos are available via “Swallow Yachts Raid 2019“] I drove down to Cornwall on Monday 24th June calling...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/07/2019 · Last modified 02/07/2019
It’s Swallow Yachts Raid time! As usual I’m helping with one of the safety ribs. Today, Monday I drove down to Falmouth calling in at...
This year I decided to drive to Falmouth on the Monday, to have a day of sight-seeing today, Tuesday, before the Swallow Yachts Raid which...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 02/07/2019 · Last modified 20/11/2020
I’d passed signposts to Newlyn whilst driving from Chysauster to Sennen and I decided to return there and find “Ordnance Datum Newlyn” to which Ordnance...
With gale force easterlies forecast for the second day of the Swallow Yachts’ Raid the decision was made to cancel sailing ahead of time. Lara...