2026: Land-bound!

At the start of 2026 Seatern was sold but still at my jetty, she finally departed for Germany on the 6th March.  January and February were very wet with rain causing inland floods.

Even before Seatern departed work started on rebuilding my jetty with the work essentially complete in the 4th week of March.  Both the removal of Seatern and the rebuild of the jetty came as something of a relief!  The first thing I noticed after Seatern had been collected was that on windy days I no longer had to worry about how Seatern was coping with the weather.  At the jetty she was well protected by the fender board, but with a fixed jetty and few metres rise and fall of the tide there was always that possibility of the board or a mooring rope catching up somewhere.  With regard to the jetty,  it had needed significant repair work for a few years.  With Seatern gone there was the opportunity to replace it.  The new jetty id the same size and in the same place as the previous one but with new materials chosen to last into the future.

Meanwhile the local Flood Group has been reactivated and  my National Coastwatch commitment continues…