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...
Category: 2026
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...
27th June: Seascow first sail!
It has been a very hot few days. However temperatures were a bit lower on Saturday, most modifications after the trial rigging had been done,...
28th June: Jet-ski Incident at Calshot
I was meant to do my usual Sunday watch at NCI Stone Point but they needed someone at NCI Calshot, so I swapped over with...
29th June: It’s been hot recently!
We had a series of very hot days and nights towards the end of June 2026!
4th July: X One Design racing
I was on watch at NCI Stone Point when a fleet of XOD’s came past the station tacking against both current and wind. They went...
NCI Watches: July – Dec 2026
This is a summary record of my NCI watch keeping periods and other NCI activities during July to December 2026 kept for my own records....
11th July: Round the Island race
I opened up NCI Stone Point at 06:00 BST for the Round the Island sailing race which this year had about 800 starters. We are...