31st July – 1st Aug. : Cowes Week Starts
On the first day of Cowes Week, Saturday 31st August, it was the “black sail” yachts that passed Lepe Country Park heading westwards. When they...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / Photo Album (2021) / August-Sept: "Still cool"
by Peter Taylor · Published 08/08/2021 · Last modified 30/04/2022
On the first day of Cowes Week, Saturday 31st August, it was the “black sail” yachts that passed Lepe Country Park heading westwards. When they...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / Photo Album (2021) / August-Sept: "Still cool"
by Peter Taylor · Published 08/08/2021 · Last modified 30/04/2022
One of the few days of the week with a good sailing wind. The Committee Boat was anchored near the yellow buoy at the start...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / Photo Album (2021) / August-Sept: "Still cool"
by Peter Taylor · Published 08/08/2021 · Last modified 30/04/2022
Given the number of yachts and the close racing I’m surprised that there are not more accidents. Whilst on duty at NCI Stone Point we...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / August-Sept: "Still cool"
by Peter Taylor · Published 09/08/2021 · Last modified 29/04/2022
On Sunday, 8th August, I arrived at Lepe Country Park early for my afternoon Watch at NCI Stone Point to watch and take photographs of...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / August-Sept: "Still cool"
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/08/2021 · Last modified 16/11/2021
I left the house to drive out to Lepe Country park for Coastwatch duty only to find that someone had run into my car! There...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / Photo Album (2021) / August-Sept: "Still cool"
by Peter Taylor · Published 18/08/2021 · Last modified 29/12/2022
Photographs of the start of the Association of Sail Training Organisations race to commemorate the 401st anniversary of the Mayflower.
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / Photo Album (2021) / August-Sept: "Still cool"
by Peter Taylor · Published 29/08/2021 · Last modified 30/04/2022
The Cowes-Torquay-Cowes and Cowes-Poole-Cowes annual power boat races were held on the 29th August 2021. I was booked on the afternoon shift at Calshot Tower...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / August-Sept: "Still cool"
by Peter Taylor · Published 08/09/2021 · Last modified 14/09/2021
While having my morning cup of tea it struck me that me “garden” – mainly the planters on the jetty staging – was looking good,...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / August-Sept: "Still cool" / NCI(2021)
by Peter Taylor · Published 08/09/2021 · Last modified 14/09/2021
The NCI Calshot Tower Social group had organised a visit to the Southampton Vessel Traffic Services “VTS”. Originally it was meant to be a “virtual”...
Diary Entry (2021) / 2021 / August-Sept: "Still cool" / NCI(2021)
by Peter Taylor · Published 14/09/2021
On Saturday September 11th I helped man the NCI stand at the Southampton Boat Show. Although I felt that there were fewer people there than...