12th Nov: Yacht aground
On watch at NCI Stone Point during the afternoon of 12th November we noticed that a yacht, situated to the west of the Lepe Spit...
Diary Entry (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics / 2023
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/11/2023 · Last modified 19/01/2024
On watch at NCI Stone Point during the afternoon of 12th November we noticed that a yacht, situated to the west of the Lepe Spit...
Diary Entry (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 26/11/2023 · Last modified 18/12/2023
By 31st October 2023 a number of Met Office warnings for rain and wind were in force associated with named storm Ciarán , including a...
Sept-Dec: More classics / 2023 / Diary Entry (2023)
by Peter Taylor · Published 27/11/2023 · Last modified 09/01/2024
Met Office analyses The following weather charts originated from the weathercharts.org website. They show storm Ciarán as a 972mb low in the western approaches at...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 28/11/2023 · Last modified 15/04/2024
Introduction: To define the tidal curve for a place and time the most obvious choice would be that provided by the Admiralty. Unfortunately nowadays...
Introduction: Following my discovery of a high bias in AyeTides values for Southampton, Hahn Software (creators of MrTides and AyeTides) suggested that the bias could...
2023 / NCI (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 25/12/2023 · Last modified 18/01/2024
I arrived at NCI Stone Point ready for the afternoon watch in time to witness the tail end of an “incident”. A member of the...
2023 / NCI (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 27/12/2023 · Last modified 18/01/2024
On Boxing Day afternoon I was doing a lone watch at NCI Stone Point. The weather was poor and although we had had some swimmers...
This is a summary record of my NCI watch keeping periods and other NCI activities during January to June 2024 kept for my own records.
An introduction to my activities for the National Coastwatch Institution.
So 2024 is starting. My health is still not 100%. Last year I had various tests including an MRI scan which was interesting. They give...