9th April (onwards!): Boracol’ing Seatern
The exposed wood on Seatern – Toe rail, rubbing strake, cockpit grating, cockpit seats, etc – is teak which I’ve left in it’s “natural” state....
2020 / March-April: "Viral Times" / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 12/04/2020 · Last modified 13/04/2020
The exposed wood on Seatern – Toe rail, rubbing strake, cockpit grating, cockpit seats, etc – is teak which I’ve left in it’s “natural” state....
2020 / March-April: "Viral Times" / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/04/2020 · Last modified 25/04/2020
I was contacted by someone thinking about choosing a BC20 who asked, amongst other questions, where one could site a portable toilet. On Seatern the...
Diary Entry / 2020 / March-April: "Viral Times"
by Peter Taylor · Published 25/04/2020 · Last modified 15/11/2022
So I started work cleaning Seatern’s teak on the 9th April, a Thursday, by lifting and treating the cockpit grating and the starboard side toe...
2020 / March-April: "Viral Times" / About Seatern
by Peter Taylor · Published 26/04/2020 · Last modified 05/05/2020
Reversing the fender board turned out to be harder work than I’d anticipated so what with doing the NCI Calshot weekly news bulletin (which takes...
This is a version of an item I prepared for the NCI Calshot Tower “Blog” explaining that when there is a tidal surge the tide might...
In my “Tidal Surge Forecasts” post (originally prepared for the NCI Calshot “Blog”) I used the tide heights observed during storm Brendan to illustrate that...
2020 / May-July: "Lock-Down Continues"
by Peter Taylor · Published 16/05/2020 · Last modified 20/05/2020
On Wednesday 6th it was looking like rain in the morning but then the high pressure system started to re-established itself. With the sky still...
2020 / May-July: "Lock-Down Continues" / Covid-19
by Peter Taylor · Published 19/05/2020 · Last modified 18/06/2020
Frustrated with the incredibly poor way journalists were presenting information on the covid-19 outbreak I presented my own analysis on 6th April which used the...
With Covid-19 cases decreasing in the UK, and having wilted in enthusiasm for tasks on Seatern, I decided to look at the world beyond the...
Diary Entry / 2020 / May-July: "Lock-Down Continues" / Covid-19
by Peter Taylor · Published 31/05/2020 · Last modified 18/06/2020
It’s Saturday. During the last week it emerged that, during the lockdown regulations, Dominic Cummings, the Prime Minister’s chief advisor, drove 200 miles with his...