Latest Seatern Diaries Entries
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1st – 7th Aug: Cowes Week - This year was the bicentennial Cowes Week. With the hot dry summer is continuing I booked on at NCI Stone Point and took some photos. ...(Read More)
11th July: Round the Island race - I opened up NCI Stone Point at 06:00 BST for the Round the Island sailing race which this year had about 800 starters. We are going through another hot spell with more or less unbroken sunshine. A force 3 to… ...(Read More)
4th July: X One Design racing - I was on watch at NCI Stone Point when a fleet of XOD's came past the station tacking against both current and wind. They went quite a way into the Beaulieu River estuary, where they would have picked up a… ...(Read More)
29th June: It’s been hot recently! - We had a series of very hot days and nights towards the end of June 2026! ...(Read More)
28th June: Jet-ski Incident at Calshot - I was meant to do my usual Sunday watch at NCI Stone Point but they needed someone at NCI Calshot, so I swapped over with my Lepe watch being filled by someone who cannot climb the Tower. The first we… ...(Read More)
27th June: Seascow first sail! - It has been a very hot few days. However temperatures were a bit lower on Saturday, most modifications after the trial rigging had been done, and with a morning tide I decided to see how she would sail. The only… ...(Read More)
21st June: Seascow trial rigging - I'd been waiting for a calm day to try rigging "Seascow" and one came soon after dawn on Sunday 21st June. I discovered a list of things to do including: whip end of halyard attach pulleys at mast base for… ...(Read More)
16th June: Cleaning Seafly aka Seascow! - Having established that the Lymington Scow rig would fit on the Seafly, the first step was to clean the seafly hull which has been neglected while I was trying to sell Seatern and then getting the jetty rebuilt. To summarise… ...(Read More)