24th to 28th June: Swallow Yachts Raid
[NB this is my “Diary Entry”; Raid photos are available via “Swallow Yachts Raid 2019“] I drove down to Cornwall on Monday 24th June calling...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/07/2019 · Last modified 19/07/2019
[NB this is my “Diary Entry”; Raid photos are available via “Swallow Yachts Raid 2019“] I drove down to Cornwall on Monday 24th June calling...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/07/2019 · Last modified 02/07/2019
It’s Swallow Yachts Raid time! As usual I’m helping with one of the safety ribs. Today, Monday I drove down to Falmouth calling in at...
This year I decided to drive to Falmouth on the Monday, to have a day of sight-seeing today, Tuesday, before the Swallow Yachts Raid which...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 02/07/2019 · Last modified 20/11/2020
I’d passed signposts to Newlyn whilst driving from Chysauster to Sennen and I decided to return there and find “Ordnance Datum Newlyn” to which Ordnance...
With gale force easterlies forecast for the second day of the Swallow Yachts’ Raid the decision was made to cancel sailing ahead of time. Lara...
Nowadays Southampton Container Port is run by “DP World” (where “DP” stands for Dubai Ports). On Wednesday 10th July I joined a party of NCI...
Diary Entry / 2019 / Aug/Sept: "Vicarious Sailing"
by Peter Taylor · Published 04/08/2019 · Last modified 30/08/2019
Saturday 3rd August 2019 saw the start of the Fastnet Race from off Cowes. I took a couple of photos from Calshot Point of the...
Diary Entry / 2019 / Aug/Sept: "Vicarious Sailing" / Cowes Week 2019
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/08/2019 · Last modified 23/08/2019
On each day during Cowes Week I was on watch at NCI Stone Point. This post introduces photo albums depicting the racing on days when the weather allowed.
Diary Entry / 2019 / Aug/Sept: "Vicarious Sailing"
by Peter Taylor · Published 07/09/2019 · Last modified 30/09/2019
On June 2nd 2019 it had been announced that NCI Calshot Tower were amongst the proud recipients of the Queens Award for Voluntary Service. In...
Diary Entry / 2019 / Aug/Sept: "Vicarious Sailing"
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/09/2019 · Last modified 03/10/2019
I was on the National Coastwatch Institution stand at the Southampton Boat Show on Sunday 15th September. Perhaps the most rewarding part was the number...