14th March: Walk to Solent Breezes
I parked at Warsash and walked to Solent Breezes caravan park passing the end of the electricity power line tunnel under Southampton Water on the...
Category: March-April: “New Season?”
Mobile westerly condition continued into March and on the 9th a secondary depression gave cause for flooding concern in Priory Road, but didn’t deepen enough. High pressure arrived mid-March and it was time to get the sails back on Seatern. However there was a cold easterly wind and single figure temperatures continued into April.
15th March: Put the sails on Seatern
Today (Tuesday) I rigged the sails back on Seatern and cleaned down the decks. After continual mobile westerly conditions, high pressure finally got established at...
17th March: “Boracol-ing” Seatern’s Teak
The “wood parts” of Seatern – toerail, rubbing strake, tiller, etc. and also the cockpit grating and seat panels (both made by Howells of Poole)...
20th-25th March: Seatern Spring Clean
The dry weather has been continuing at last but the temperatures have been still cool – single figures. Rather than sailing I’ve spent time getting...
29th Mar – 6th April: NCI Calshot web site
Brian Roberts had suggested I might take over the Calshot NCI web pages and this was approved by the Calshot Committee on the Wednesday 23rd...
10th April: Interesting Watch at Calshot
Spring tides and a strong east-south-easterly wind! There was only myself and Roy Pullinger, a trainee watchkeeper, on watch which seems a bit thin for...
14th April: Drifting to Pitts Deep!
With light winds, on this day sail I only managed to get to Pitts Deep (36nm)