16th-18th April: Cleaning Seatern’s Teak
The exposed woodwork on Seatern is untreated teak. In theory I should clean it and treat it with Boracol (a biocide for surface mould and...
2018 / About Seatern / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 18/04/2018 · Last modified 20/04/2018
The exposed woodwork on Seatern is untreated teak. In theory I should clean it and treat it with Boracol (a biocide for surface mould and...
Diary Entry / 2018 / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/04/2018 · Last modified 21/04/2018
Probably as a displacement activity to avoid cleaning the cockpit grating, on Thursday 19th I decided to walk along the coast from Lee-on-the-Solent. I had...
2018 / About Seatern / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/04/2018 · Last modified 29/04/2018
After getting back from the mornings walk, I spent the afternoon of the 19th emptying (more or less) Seatern’s petrol tank into the car and...
Diary Entry / 2018 / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 29/04/2018 · Last modified 15/02/2019
The dry spell didn’t last! Having finished cleaning and applying Boracol to the cockpit grating on the Friday (20th), on Saturday night we had a...
We had some spring snow in 2018! Until mid-May Seatern was still at the jetty. However she was looking smarter with the wood work cleaned...
2018 / About Seatern / May: "Time to start Sailing"
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/05/2018 · Last modified 14/05/2018
It’s slow progress towards starting the sailing season but I’ve been getting lots of small jobs done on Seatern. These include checking shackles, for example...
The deck aft of the boom gallows has had one or two knocks due to the sprit boom hitting it during furling the mizzen. I’ve...
My back garden is small – there’s just room for Seatern’s road trailer but I don’t keep it there because there would then be no...
Diary Entry / 2018 / May: "Time to start Sailing"
by Peter Taylor · Published 23/05/2018 · Last modified 23/06/2018
I’d arranged to take some friends to Tout Quarry on Portland Bill. The weather for the week was generally good but for the Wednesday (16th...
2018 / Photo Album / May: "Time to start Sailing"
by Peter Taylor · Published 23/05/2018 · Last modified 23/08/2018
Photographs from the first sail of the year and first use of the new asymmetric spinnaker. So far I’m very pleased with it! I motored up the Beaulieu River to Bucklers Hard before returning to Southampton.