5th August: Cowes Week starts
Cowes Week started on the 4th so on the 5th I took my longest telephoto lens with me for the 12 – 16 hrs watch...
Category: August: “started hot!”
The first week of August has continued the hot weather of July! It cooled off a bit and some favourable winds meant I got through Hurst Narrows and through the North Channel on a couple of occasions. I also, at long last, fixed the lid of the toilet!
6th August: to North Head buoy
Drifting and sailing down the western Solent, discovering the back eddy at the Trap, and turning off Milford-on-Sea. Back through some of the Cowes Week racing fleets!
Photo Album: 6th August 2018
Photos from a two tide sail/drift out to the North Channel at Hurst. Turned near North head buoy off Milford on Sea and then back through Cowes Week racing fleets.
15th August: Some nagging jobs
I finally repaired the toilet seat lid… it’s needed doing for two or three years but somehow I never got round to it! The toilet...
Photo Album: 20th August 2018
Photographs from a two tide trip where I hoped to get to Hengistbury Head but turned back at Chewton Bunny in case the wind dropped.
20th August: to Chewton Bunny and back!
A whole day trip past Hurst Narrows and hoping to get to Hengistbury Head. However i was worried that the wind would drop and turned back at Chewton Bunny, a valley or chine in Highcliffe which is a nature reserve.
22nd August: Sorting out the Asymmetric
Coming back from Chewton Bunny I’d made a mess of furling the asymmetric spinnaker before gybing. This was the first time things had gone wrong...
29th August: Worth Matravers and Seacombe
Drove down to Worth Matravers today with friends Jon, Wendy, and Zoe and walked down to Seacombe ledge. In my postgraduate days at Southampton University...