Latest Seatern Diaries Entries
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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)
13th June: “Bark on the Beach” - I was on watch at NCI Stone Point on the afternoon of Saturday 13th June, so turned up at about 11am to take some photos of the NCI representation at the Lepe Country Park "Mark on the Beach" event. Our… ...(Read More)