4th August: Photos – Day 7 Cowes Week 2023
[Back to index for Cowes Week 2023] After the previous day’s experience, with the racing fleets stranded fighting the tide between Lepe and Gurnard, the...
[Back to index for Cowes Week 2023] After the previous day’s experience, with the racing fleets stranded fighting the tide between Lepe and Gurnard, the...
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...
The Ocean Globe race is a fully crewed retro-race in the spirit of the 1973 Whitbread Round the World Race held to mark the 50th...
I’m not sure why I sign up for the NCI stand at the Boat Show since I can get in for free as an “aged...
NCI (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics / 2023
by Peter Taylor · Published 24/09/2023 · Last modified 27/09/2023
The first watch at an NCI station in Lepe Country Park was on the 25th May 2019. The station was an NCI transportable unit and...
The Scale Section Model Boat Show 2023 was held at the Milford-on-Sea Community Centre on Saturday, 23rd September. The show was generously sponsored by Wightlink...
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...
Solent Rescue are an independent lifeboat organisation situated close to our NCI Stone Point station. They seem to have lost of money for gear –...
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...