1st to 19th Aug: Life without Seatern
With Seatern in West Wales for about 3 weeks I thought I’d get lots of things done… of course I didn’t. The weather was generally...
Category: August: “Look no Seatern!”
August 2015: Seatern was back at Swallow Yachts for new paint work and repairs to her stem. It ends with a gleaming Seatern “Yacht” and less than gleaming weather!
18th August: Top of Mast
When Seatern was being built I spent quite a bit of time trying to come up with a layout for the masthead instruments which would...
19th August: Itchen Bore
On 8th March 2011 I was having breakfast on the jetty when, at about 0640, I saw what appeared to be a tidal bore proceeding...
20th – 21st August: Seatern returns as a Yacht!
Jonny who was organising the work on Seatern at what is now “Swallow Yachts” had said they needed her until 21st August. However on the...
22nd August: Seatern has a new waterline
When I ordered Seatern I selected white for the hull since Matt suggested all colours fade. He also suggested that, rather than have a contrasting...
24th – 28th August: Not sailing weather
I needn’t have rushed to get Seatern back from Swallow Yachts! There has been a trailing weather front over the country all week with gales...
30th August: Itchen Incident
Someone reported a person in the water near Cobden bridge… we had the Coastguard helicopter, the two RNLI lifeboats from Calshot, the Harbour Master, and...