12th Nov: Yacht aground
On watch at NCI Stone Point during the afternoon of 12th November we noticed that a yacht, situated to the west of the Lepe Spit...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/11/2023 · Last modified 19/01/2024
On watch at NCI Stone Point during the afternoon of 12th November we noticed that a yacht, situated to the west of the Lepe Spit...
Diary Entry (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 26/11/2023 · Last modified 18/12/2023
By 31st October 2023 a number of Met Office warnings for rain and wind were in force associated with named storm Ciarán , including a...
Sept-Dec: More classics / 2023 / Diary Entry (2023)
by Peter Taylor · Published 27/11/2023 · Last modified 09/01/2024
Met Office analyses The following weather charts originated from the weathercharts.org website. They show storm Ciarán as a 972mb low in the western approaches at...
2023 / Diary Entry (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 28/11/2023 · Last modified 15/04/2024
Introduction: To define the tidal curve for a place and time the most obvious choice would be that provided by the Admiralty. Unfortunately nowadays...
Introduction: Following my discovery of a high bias in AyeTides values for Southampton, Hahn Software (creators of MrTides and AyeTides) suggested that the bias could...
2023 / NCI (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 25/12/2023 · Last modified 18/01/2024
I arrived at NCI Stone Point ready for the afternoon watch in time to witness the tail end of an “incident”. A member of the...
2023 / NCI (2023) / Sept-Dec: More classics
by Peter Taylor · Published 27/12/2023 · Last modified 18/01/2024
On Boxing Day afternoon I was doing a lone watch at NCI Stone Point. The weather was poor and although we had had some swimmers...