4th June: D-Day Memorial event at Lepe
During part of the D-Day Memorial Event on the 4th June in Lepe Country Park we had a rock group playing outside the NCI Stone...
Category: June: Yachts from the past
I really don’t feel fit enough to sail but watching the action from Lepe is a good second best! I also think I’ve solved the mystery of the Exbury Junkers! The first posts are rather land based but some yachts from another age feature at the end of the month .
5th June: New Back Brush!
It seems silly writing a post about buying a new brush to scrub my back, but it is a once in decades event! The previous...
8th June: the Wiggly Tree
During the “Rhododendron Walk” we were shown the layered oriental plane tree which has been nicknamed the “wiggly tree” for obvious reasons. Somehow I’d missed...
10th June: All Aboard!
It was the “All Aboard” annual River Festival and Mark and Gavin had the kids amused throwing “poo” sacks into a toilet! Listening to some...
11th June: Raining at Exbury
We are having difficulty covering weekend watches so on Sunday 11th June I was due to be on watch at NCI Stone Point for both...
11th June: The Exbury Junkers
A simple navigational error, 26°M west instead of 26°M east, brought the Junkers over the IoW. Thinking they were over the Scheldt estuary region of German-held southern Holland they fired red flares to show they were friendly.
15th June: Seawork 2023
I attended the last day of the Seawork Exhibition on Thursday, 15th June. Compared to previous years there seemed a lot fewer boats on the...
20th June: Schtandart at Beaulieu River
I had gone to NCI Stone Point in Lepe Country Park in the hope of getting some photos of the classic yachts competing in the...
20/21st June: Richard Mille Cup
The Richard Mille Cup is a new event for which: Entry will be open to invited owners and charterers of yachts built before 1939, or...
