2023: Any Sailing?
In 2022 I never managed to shake off the symptoms which I have attributed to having caught covid-19 in March of the year. Mainly getting...
In 2022 I never managed to shake off the symptoms which I have attributed to having caught covid-19 in March of the year. Mainly getting...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Jan-March: Stone Point times
by Peter Taylor · Published 05/01/2023 · Last modified 30/01/2023
Monday 5th December 2022: I phone BT and tell them I will be no longer using BT from the end of my contract, that is...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Jan-March: Stone Point times
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/02/2023 · Last modified 19/04/2023
If I walk into Southampton town centre I often go via Old Northam Road. It gives the impression that there has been an attempt to...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Jan-March: Stone Point times / NCI (2023)
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/02/2023
While on beach patrol from NCI Stone Point on the morning of Monday, 9th January, I came across a pallet wedged on the remains of...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Jan-March: Stone Point times
by Peter Taylor · Published 12/03/2023 · Last modified 30/06/2023
An ex-Oceanography colleague had told me that part of Nevil Shute’s novel “Requiem for a Wren” is set in the Exbury and Lepe area. Reading...
The weather has been foul and I hadn’t been out onto the jetty for a few days until 4th March. As I went out onto...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Jan-March: Stone Point times / NCI (2023)
by Peter Taylor · Published 25/03/2023 · Last modified 15/04/2023
Adapted from my post on the Calshot Blog : On the afternoon of Friday, 24th March I was doing a lone watch at NCI Stone...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / April-May: Exbury and Lepe
by Peter Taylor · Published 03/04/2023 · Last modified 10/05/2023
Summer Time commenced on the 26th March and NCI Stone Point commenced a three watch routine with hours 09-12, 12-15, and 15-18. Initially at least...
April-May: Exbury and Lepe / 2023 / Diary Entry (2023)
by Peter Taylor · Published 10/04/2023 · Last modified 10/05/2023
On 9th April I was once again booked for the first and last watchkeeping shifts of the day at NCI Stone Point. Between the shifts...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / April-May: Exbury and Lepe
by Peter Taylor · Published 22/04/2023 · Last modified 10/05/2023
I had decided to go to the Ocean Business 2023 exhibition at the National Oceanography Centre partly because there was a talk on the Global...