6th – 12 Oct: First Storms prompt Winter preparations!
No sailing but a busy week! On the 6th Simon Crawford from Marineware came (at Matt’s request) to look at the small blisters in the...
Category: October: “Summer’s Ended”
October 2014: After a prolonged summer Autumn arrived! The end of the first week brought new local flood alerts with boats floating at jetty level and water in gardens
22nd Oct: More Electric Outboard tests
The weather is making me realise how spoilt we were during the summer. Now almost every day mentions force 7 in the forecast and I’ve...
24th Oct: Even more Electric Outboard tests!
As a contribution to discussions on the Swallow Boats Association forum, today I did some measurements of power consumption for my the Minn-Kota Rip Tide...
25th Oct: To Hamble Spit and back
A single tide sail to hamble Spit and back (16nm) on a Saturday – so got mixed up with dinghy races!
25th Oct: 1st use of Ballast Pump & Close-haul Repeater
Sailing down Southampton Water I had the first actual use of the new Ballast pump (see September 22nd entry. As expected, a great success. No...
30th Oct: Becalmed at Bald Head + Royalist
I was planning to go to Newtown River but lack of wind and electrics problems meant I only got as far as Bald Head! (17nm).
30th Oct: Lessons on wiring electrics
The incident today when I lost power to the ballast pump and Tiller Pilot made me think about the best way to have the electrics...