6th September: Bestival!
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...
Category: Sept: “Autumn is Early”
September 2017: it feels like the sailing season has ended …I hope not! But September has started with poor weather with strong winds in the forecasts.
16th Sept: Jetty done, but still no sailing!
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...
17th/21st Sept: Southampton Boat Show
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...
20th Sept: Seatern visits the Boat Show
Seatern viewed the Boat Show from the water and got closer than I expected!
25-26 Sept: Sea Lightning!
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...
27th Sept: Needles by any means!
A day sail starting in darkness and then in misty weather to a point near the Needles and back; from Hurst to the Needles I had to motor sail against the tide.