1st/2nd June: June starts with a storm
On the night of 1st June it peaked at force 9 at the jetty – I’d taken the mizzen off but Seatern would have been...
Category: June: “is this Summer?”
June 2015: started much like May with a severe gale over the night of 1st/2nd. Initially I was land-bound after a minor operation so Seatern saw a flurry of modifications!
3rd – 4th June: Anchor Hatches, Binocular Box, battery board, + toilet grating!
Anchor hatches: I’d been meaning to put some sort of catch on the anchor lockers lids for some time – if I did capsize Seatern,...
5th – 6th June: New Jib Sheets
From the start I wasn’t impressed with the Spinlock PXR clutches as jib fairleads and, to be fair, Matt had supplied replacement camcleats without me...
7th – 9th June: Mizzen furling system
On the 12th May I discovered what Julian Swindell has said for some time – that a BC20 sails upwind better with the mizzen furled....
10th June: Shortest sail this year!
Planned to be a day trip but a changed weather forecast caused me to turn back after trying the new jib and mizzen setups.
13th June: Moved the boat trailer!
Having spent the last year chocked up and taking up almost all the back garden, Seatern’s trailer has now been moved to an off-road parking...
17th June: Jib sheets and hatch instruments
The sail on the 10th June may have been very short but it was long enough to prove the new jib sheet arrangement didn’t work!...
18th June: Marchwood Military Port
A single tide sail going up the Western Docks as far as the Military Port.
22nd June: to CLH Trailers
Took the trailer back to CLH Trailers to be converted to braked… stopped off at Laugharne before returning and saw Dylan Thomas’s writing shed and...
24th June: Western Solent
A day trip in the western Solent (39nm) where I prove that it’s not worth tacking against the tide!