19th Sept: I visit the Boat Show
Monday is usually a “quiet” day at the Boat Show so I went along to buy some new sailing boots and also to look at,...
Diary Entry / 2016 / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 19/09/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
Monday is usually a “quiet” day at the Boat Show so I went along to buy some new sailing boots and also to look at,...
Diary Entry / 2016 / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 24/09/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
I’d arranged for an internet purchase of a Personal Distress pack to be delivered at the Boat Show (to avoid carriage costs) so I went...
Diary Entry / 2016 / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 03/10/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
In trying to turn Seatern around at the jetty after sailing on the 23rd September she blew around the end of the pontoon. This has...
Diary Entry / 2016 / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 12/10/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
A young couple have rented space on neighbour Jo’s jetty, the next upstream of mine, and put their speedboat right at the end where Mike...
Diary Entry / 2016 / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 18/10/2016 · Last modified 03/08/2021
Went to Port Hamble and agreed to charter Seafin for my 70th Birthday. I’d first seen her from Calshot Tower and passed me on the...
Diary Entry / 2016 / Sept-Oct: "Autumn Already!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 31/10/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
Finishing off the modified pontoon – cleaning and refitting the fenders and the “hand-rail” posts was more of a task than I anticipated. However once...
Diary Entry / Sea-Osprey / 2016 / Nov-Dec: "Early Winter"
by Peter Taylor · Published 02/11/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
SeaOsprey goes to Ocean Village and back
Diary Entry / 2016 / Nov-Dec: "Early Winter"
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/11/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
I mentioned the badly moored speedboat on Jo’s jetty on 12th October. Today it was hanging by its own mooring line. I assumed it would...
Diary Entry / Sea-Osprey / 2016 / Nov-Dec: "Early Winter"
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/11/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
Since it was a sunny day I thought about taking the sails off Seatern but decided to go up the river in my canoe, SeaOsprey....
Diary Entry / 2016 / Nov-Dec: "Early Winter"
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/11/2016 · Last modified 24/08/2017
The first storm of the winter came through over Saturday/Sunday night (19th/20th). We were past springs but a significant storm surge was predicted resulting in...