12th June: Hamble Spit
A single tide sail down to Hamble Spit with the new top-down furling asymmetric set. I don’t usually manage to get so far down Southampton Water before turning back for the tide.
Category: June: “warm weather”
Repairs to the lving room roof plus a throat infection were a distraction at the start of the month but at least I managed a couple of good sails.
Photo Album: 12th June 2018
Photographs from a single tide sail down to Hamble Spit with the new top-down furling asymmetric set. I don’t usually manage to get so far down Southampton Water before turning back for the tide.
17th June: OMRA at Calshot
When I arrived at Calshot on Sunday morning in preparation for the 12 – 16 watch I saw that the Offshore Model Racing Association were...
4th – 18th June: Living Room Roof
The weather during the week starting with the 28th May Spring Bank holiday was very warm, to the extent that there was a constant threat...
21st June: Needles Fairway buoy or thereabouts!
An early morning start and a northerly wind got Seatern through Hurst Narrows while the ebb was still flowing strongly. Then the wind got up and for the rest of the day it was variable in speed and direction.
Photo Album: 21st June 2018
Photographs from a sail out towards the Needles Fairway buoy. Plans changed when the wind became strong and later very variable.
23rd June: Thundercats and a small Classic
I booked in for the 12-16 watch at Calshot Tower Coastwatch station on Saturday, 23rd June, after reading the Notice to Mariners (No.21(T) 2018) about...
27th & 28th June: SeaLightning …and a pump!
We’ve got a period of hot weather and east to northeast winds which would be great for trips down the western Solent except the tides...