3rd/4th January: Flood alerts
The Environment Agency issued a Flood Alert at 0709 on 3rd January 2018. The prediction was for a 0.28m surge on top of a 4.86m...
2018 Diary Entries other than sailing trips …mainly for my own benefit
Jan-Feb: "Fifth year starts" / Diary Entry / 2018
by Peter Taylor · Published 10/01/2018 · Last modified 18/10/2024
The Environment Agency issued a Flood Alert at 0709 on 3rd January 2018. The prediction was for a 0.28m surge on top of a 4.86m...
The outboard needs it’s annual service so on the last day of January I removed it from Seatern. Easier said than done, as I suspected...
Jan-Feb: "Fifth year starts" / Diary Entry / 2018
by Peter Taylor · Published 08/02/2018 · Last modified 20/02/2018
I’d had a message that my outboard, “Dai”, had been serviced and was ready to be collected from the Rib Shop at Eastlands Boatyard. On the...
I decided to explore the River Hamble bank north of the A27. I hadn’t really realised before that there is a “River Hamble Country Park”...
Over the last day or two we’ve had an intense high over Scandinavia (1055mb!) resulting in a strong easterly flow over the UK and snow...
Diary Entry / 2018 / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 28/03/2018 · Last modified 29/03/2018
Just to prove it’s Spring it snowed again! Snow is fairly rare in Southampton which lies coastwards of the South Downs hills which run through...
Diary Entry / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 28/03/2018 · Last modified 29/03/2018
Photographs of the snow taken on a detour through the New Forest while driving home from being on watch at Calshot. The first set were...
March was wet with below average temperatures. It’s now April but the weather has hardly improved! On the 4th it was windy and rain squalls...
Diary Entry / 2018 / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/04/2018 · Last modified 21/04/2018
Probably as a displacement activity to avoid cleaning the cockpit grating, on Thursday 19th I decided to walk along the coast from Lee-on-the-Solent. I had...
Diary Entry / 2018 / March-April: "Spring Snow?"
by Peter Taylor · Published 29/04/2018 · Last modified 15/02/2019
The dry spell didn’t last! Having finished cleaning and applying Boracol to the cockpit grating on the Friday (20th), on Saturday night we had a...