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...
Category: Jan-Feb: “Fifth year starts”
January and February 2018: the year starts cold!
7th January: Incident at Calshot
We had an incident during the 11am to 2pm watch. The winds were force 6, gusting 7, from ENE resulting in a rough looking sea...
31st Jan-2nd Feb: Outboard, Met Station & LED bulbs!
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...
7th Feb 2018: Walk along the River Hamble
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...
16th Feb: Walk in Hamble River Country Park
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”...
19th February: Mounted Outboard on Seatern
It’s spring tides so, once the rain stopped, I decided to put my outboard “Dai” back on Seatern following its annual service. I decided to...
22nd-24th Feb: Cleaned Spray Canopy
After the weather we have been having various bits of Seatern are starting to look green. At the moment, sub-zero temperatures overnight are limiting what...
27th February: Canopy update!
Today we had a light flurry of snow and I went out to look at Seatern. Where the small amount of settled snow on the...