Days gone by: Totland Paella
A couple of weeks ago a friend, “E.T.”, gave me some prints which he had recently scanned. They dated back to an event, probably in...
A couple of weeks ago a friend, “E.T.”, gave me some prints which he had recently scanned. They dated back to an event, probably in...
Diary Entry / 2019 / March-April: Windy at first
by Peter Taylor · Published 20/04/2019 · Last modified 03/05/2019
Sorting out the living room seems to have taken so much of my time recently. Even getting the sails back on Seatern was as much...
Diary Entry / 2019 / NCI (2019) / March-April: Windy at first
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/05/2019
I’ve been concerned that Watchkeepers are often under-estimating the Sea State in the hourly met reports. This concern was brought to a head on Sunday...
This post makes available in PDF form a document describing the development of a Sea State Guide for the NCI Calshot Tower station.
During the afternoon of the last day in April I read a whole book. “Losing Earth” by Nathaniel Rich had been “Book of the Week”...
Diary Entry / 2019 / May: Season starts?
by Peter Taylor · Published 05/05/2019 · Last modified 14/06/2019
With friends Zoe and Wendy, visited the Russell-Cotes Museum in Bournemouth. I hadn’t been there for years and was reminded that it is both a...
Diary Entry / 2019 / May: Season starts?
by Peter Taylor · Published 23/05/2019 · Last modified 14/06/2019
Spent the day at Exbury Gardens (near Beaulieu) with friends Wendy Leeks and Zoe Shelley. In the morning we walked down to the Beaulieu River....
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 10/06/2019 · Last modified 01/07/2019
At Lepe Country Park, the distance from the mainland across to the Isle of Wight is narrower than elsewhere in the Solent. This creates strong...
Diary Entry / NCI (2019) / May: Season starts?
by Peter Taylor · Published 10/06/2019 · Last modified 09/07/2022
NCI Calshot Tower had been considering setting up a satellite station in Lepe Country Park for some time. Then, it appears that the Country Park...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 13/06/2019 · Last modified 01/07/2019
Went to the Seawork exhibition, mainly to look at the ships! First vessel was the Damen shipyard Tug “YN 571727”; I guess it gets a...