5th – 26th August: New web site
I had been planning to move the Seatern Diaries web site to WordPress format this coming winter. However the bad weather at the start of...
I had been planning to move the Seatern Diaries web site to WordPress format this coming winter. However the bad weather at the start of...
August: "Jetty repairs" / 2017 / Diary Entry
by Peter Taylor · Published 31/08/2017 · Last modified 06/09/2017
I can’t believe that I’ve not got out sailing during August! I was in two minds about going today but the wind was light and...
2017 / Diary Entry / Sept: "Autumn is Early"
by Peter Taylor · Published 08/09/2017 · Last modified 11/10/2017
Friends from way back, Geof (whom I met when we were at Imperial College) and Linden, phoned me to say they would be going to...
2017 / Diary Entry / Sept: "Autumn is Early"
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/09/2017 · Last modified 21/09/2017
September has started stormy and it really feels like autumn, almost every forecast has had force 6 or 7 winds. In the early hours of...
I spent Sunday 17th September with other Calshot watch keepers on the NCI “stand” at the Boat Show. NCI now has its own containerised stand...
2017 / Diary Entry / Sept: "Autumn is Early"
by Peter Taylor · Published 25/09/2017 · Last modified 02/10/2017
On the afternoon of Monday 25th September I donned my dry suit and careened my Seafly to clean the bottom of the hull. At first...
On Tuesday 3rd I sailed the Seafly, I’m using the “Sea Lightning” rig at the moment . There was more wind than the previous sail...
2017 / Diary Entry / Oct-Nov: "70th and new car!" / 70th Birthday
by Peter Taylor · Published 10/10/2017 · Last modified 21/12/2017
Photo Albums: [photos of event] [photos of participants!] Last year I decided to chartered Seafin for Sunday the 8th October 2017 for my...
2017 / Diary Entry / Oct-Nov: "70th and new car!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 25/10/2017 · Last modified 08/11/2017
The weather in the week after my Birthday celebration was not too bad, but I didn’t manage to take Seatern out – whether it was...
2017 / Diary Entry / Oct-Nov: "70th and new car!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 10/11/2017 · Last modified 14/11/2017
I hardly ever tow Seatern on the road but I think it’s important to maintain the ability to do so. Towards the end of September...