6th Feb: NCI Watch-Keeper
On Saturday 6th February I qualified as an NCI Watch Keeper! After picking up my ID card, epaulettes etc. on the following Tuesday I went...
Category: NCI
Diary entries during 2016 specific to my being a watch-keeper at the Calshot Tower station of the National Coastwatch Institution
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...
22nd May: RNLI Exercise at Calshot
I swapped to the 08 to 12 watch to take part in a joint exercise with the Calshot RNLI Lifeboat. The scenario was a lone...
29th May: Jet Ski Collision
This was seeming a relatively quiet watch. I was doing a stint on the desk when we saw jet skiers swimming just off the beach...
10th July 2016
(Watch-keepers are identified by initials, the index to people is password protected) Sunday 10th July – Calshot Lifeboat Day – started wet with rain and...
23rd/24th July: Two NCI Watches
They were seeking a watchkeeper for the 16 to 20 watch on Saturday 23rd July so I decided to volunteer. It was the Americas Cup...
21st August: Incident off Solent Breezes
The Solent Breezes caravan park (seen in the photo from the Calshot Tower) is about 1nm away across Calshot Reach. The watch on Sunday 21st...
3rd Sept: Hamble Harbour Sea Safety Day
Ian Davis had asked if I would like to help him represent Calshot NCI at the Hamble River Sea Safety Day. It turned out to...
4th September: Kayak Incident
This had been a fairly routine watch until we heard a call on the VHF to the Coast Guard from a vessel worried about the...
