Seatern is: a twenty foot BayCruiser (“BC20”) built for me during 2013 in West Wales by Matt Newland’s firm, Swallow Yachts 
. She was delivered at the end of the year and I started sailing her in 2014.
I sailed her during the years up to 2019 but in 2020 covid-19 struck and I did not sail. I sailed Seatern a few times in 2021 but in March 2022, as I was preparing Seatern for a sailing season, I contracted covid. By then I had been vaccinated and the illness was only mild, however it left me feeling weak in the legs and my energy levels never recovered to the extent I felt able to sail Seatern. I offered her for sale in 2025 and she sold in the autumn. However it was March 2026 before Seatern left my jetty for a new life in Germany.
This web site describes my adventures with Seatern and some of my other marine related activities, in particular as an NCI Watchkeeper.
How to find things: In the initial years most entries were marked as in the table below. In more recent years this system has been abandoned!
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…notes on Seatern’s build and equipment which might be of interest to others who own, or are thinking of owning, similar boats. In the top menu choose: View by type > BC20 Notes |
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…diary entry mainly of interest to me… swabbing Seatern’s decks or some other water related activity which I want to remember! In the top menu choose: View by type > Diary Entries |
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…description of a sailing trip… mainly of interest to me and mainly day sails. In the top menu choose: View by type > Sailing Logs |
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…diary entry related to being a National Coastwatch Institution Watch Keeper at Calshot Tower (from October 2015 when I joined)… mainly of interest to me, but possibly to others interested in the NCI. In the top menu choose: View by type > NCI |