12/13th July: Cleaning the Seafly Hull
A neap tide and cooler weather encouraged me to start getting the Seafly back into a fit state to use. During the last neap it...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / July-Aug: Watching the Sailing
by Peter Taylor · Published 14/07/2023 · Last modified 25/07/2023
A neap tide and cooler weather encouraged me to start getting the Seafly back into a fit state to use. During the last neap it...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / July-Aug: Watching the Sailing
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/07/2023 · Last modified 10/10/2023
It was only light rain but enough to ensure the gardens were beautifully quiet during the first hour or so of opening when these photos...
[ View Photo Gallery] Saturday, 22nd July 2023, saw the start of the 50th running of the Fastnet Race. I booked on the 09-12 watch...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / July-Aug: Watching the Sailing
by Peter Taylor · Published 30/07/2023 · Last modified 28/08/2023
Two members of the Lymington Coastguard Rescue Team visited NCI Stone Point on Saturday, 29th July 2023, to show us the equipment they carry and...
Diary Entry (2023) / July-Aug: Watching the Sailing
by Peter Taylor · Published 03/08/2023 · Last modified 14/08/2023
[post under construction] Since I’m not sailing I decided to book myself in for watches at our NCI Stone Point station each day during Cowes...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / July-Aug: Watching the Sailing
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/09/2023 · Last modified 10/10/2023
The National Trust had sent me a ticket for up to two adult guests to visit a Trust site for free. It had to be...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 03/10/2023 · Last modified 22/01/2024
Centurion Industrial Park is on the east bank of the Itchen River directly north of Northam Bridge. I can see the northwest corner from my...
One of the best things I’ve done this year was to buy a season ticket for Exbury Gardens. I have been there numerous times, usually...
After “lunch” I wandered over to the rock garden and discovered it had been taken over by witches, skeletons, and giant cobwebs. The smoke from...
Sept-Dec: More classics / 2023 / Diary Entry (2023)
by Peter Taylor · Published 30/10/2023 · Last modified 16/11/2023
Late on Thursday 26th October the EA issued a Flood Alert for the period of Friday to Sunday 27th to 29th October. Due to “industrial...