3rd May: Seal Sleeping off Lepe
On Sunday of a Bank Holiday weekend I was on watch at NCI Stone Point and for some time we watched a seal dozing in...
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15th May: Here comes Seascow?
While on watch at NCI Stone Point I happened to mention that I was thinking of getting hold of the rig from a Mirror dinghy...
May 2nd-19th: Beach Defences
The work on the beach defences east of “the end of the trees” continued through May. To make the breakwaters they are sinking 8 foot...
18th May: Wisteria at Exbury
It was our annual DFS assessment and I had to be at the RNLI station at Calshot for 12 noon. The 100 year old wisteria...
23rd May: Fawley Emergency Services Day
It was St Denys Carnival Day and I would have liked to be at home for that. However hot weather suggested that Lepe Country Park...
7th June: D-Day at Lepe
I was booked on the 1400-1730 watch at NCI Stone Point so went to Lepe early to watch the D-Day Service. I must admit that...
10th June: Seawork Exhibition
This year I went to Seawork out of interest because I knew that Furuno would be displaying the radar from NCI Stone Point (and NCI...
13th June: “Bark on the Beach”
I was on watch at NCI Stone Point on the afternoon of Saturday 13th June, so turned up at about 11am to take some photos...
16th June: Cleaning Seafly aka Seascow!
Having established that the Lymington Scow rig would fit on the Seafly, the first step was to clean the seafly hull which has been neglected...
21st June: Seascow trial rigging
I’d been waiting for a calm day to try rigging “Seascow” and one came soon after dawn on Sunday 21st June. I discovered a list...