Latest Seatern Diaries Entries
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29th Mar: Jetty – Weeks 4 & 5 - (Week 4: 16th to 21st March) With all the new uprights in place the river end of the jetty could be demolished. When the wooden structure was disconnected from the metal piles and ladder at the river end, the latter… ...(Read More)
21st Mar: Head of River Race - According to the Local Notice to Mariners during the Head of the River Race there was going to be around 130 rowing skiffs racing from Riverside Park to the Itchen Bridge. I must admit that when the day came I… ...(Read More)
19th Mar: Exbury again! - I visited Exbury again on Thursday 29th March mainly to see the Lachenalia and Orchid exhibition in the Five Arrows gallery which I had missed on my last visit thinking it was not yet open. However first I walked past… ...(Read More)
13th Mar: Jetty Rebuild – Week 3 - (Week 3: 9th to 14th March) With Seatern having gone to Germany the river end of the jetty was now fully accessible, and even more so when the pontoon with the Seafly was moved onto the hard standing near the… ...(Read More)
10th Mar: Exbury Gardens Open - Exbury Gardens actually opened on the 1st March for members only during the first week. However the bad weather combined with Seatern being collected on the 6th March meant I did not get there until Tuesday the 10th. I was… ...(Read More)
6th Mar: Jetty Rebuild – Week 2 - (Week 2: 2nd to 6th March) Mark did not want to lay the boards for the first section of the jetty rebuild since there were still holes to be dug in the river bed and he did not want to… ...(Read More)