17th – 18th March: it snowed again!
Just to prove it’s Spring it snowed again! Snow is fairly rare in Southampton which lies coastwards of the South Downs hills which run through...
Diary Entry / 2018 / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 28/03/2018 · Last modified 29/03/2018
Just to prove it’s Spring it snowed again! Snow is fairly rare in Southampton which lies coastwards of the South Downs hills which run through...
March was wet with below average temperatures. It’s now April but the weather has hardly improved! On the 4th it was windy and rain squalls...
2018 / About Seatern / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/04/2018 · Last modified 22/02/2023
Towards the end of November last year I finally decided to order a new spinnaker with a top-down furling system. The hope is that it...
2018 / About Seatern / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 18/04/2018 · Last modified 20/04/2018
The exposed woodwork on Seatern is untreated teak. In theory I should clean it and treat it with Boracol (a biocide for surface mould and...
Diary Entry / 2018 / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/04/2018 · Last modified 21/04/2018
Probably as a displacement activity to avoid cleaning the cockpit grating, on Thursday 19th I decided to walk along the coast from Lee-on-the-Solent. I had...
2018 / About Seatern / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/04/2018 · Last modified 29/04/2018
After getting back from the mornings walk, I spent the afternoon of the 19th emptying (more or less) Seatern’s petrol tank into the car and...
Diary Entry / 2018 / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 29/04/2018 · Last modified 15/02/2019
The dry spell didn’t last! Having finished cleaning and applying Boracol to the cockpit grating on the Friday (20th), on Saturday night we had a...
We had some spring snow in 2018! Until mid-May Seatern was still at the jetty. However she was looking smarter with the wood work cleaned...
2018 / About Seatern / May: "Time to start Sailing"
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/05/2018 · Last modified 14/05/2018
It’s slow progress towards starting the sailing season but I’ve been getting lots of small jobs done on Seatern. These include checking shackles, for example...
The deck aft of the boom gallows has had one or two knocks due to the sprit boom hitting it during furling the mizzen. I’ve...