1st April: Compass swinging?
A calm day so tried swinging the compass by sailing round in circles but couldn’t get it to calibrate. Then found that NASA have changed...
Category: April: “a Bit Braver!”
April 2014: I don’t know if it’s the 18.5 year tidal cycle, but some of the neaps really are neap at the moment! Not much time to use Seatern on a single neap tide. However on 5th I made use of a neap tide for my first “two tide” sail.
5th April: First Neap Tide Trip (~32nm)
Slept on boat and left in dark at 0434. Calm morning and only boat on the river as I motored down to Woolston jetty and...
12th April: Teak Seats!
The tides are poor at the moment and high pressure means light winds. However the warmer temperatures have allowed me to fit the teak panels...
15th April: Netley Dome “burn up”!
Left 1020, quite breezy so went into Chessel bay to raise mast and set sail. Was going to put in a reef but decided not...
24th April: Hoisted Spinnaker
The tides and weather have not combined favourably recently so I’ve been catching up with things neglected while working on Seatern. However today it was...