31st July – 1st Aug. : Cowes Week Starts
On the first day of Cowes Week, Saturday 31st August, it was the “black sail” yachts that passed Lepe Country Park heading westwards. When they...
Category: Diary Entry (2021)
5th August: Cowes Week (Thursday)
One of the few days of the week with a good sailing wind. The Committee Boat was anchored near the yellow buoy at the start...
Cowes 2021: When it goes Wrong!
Given the number of yachts and the close racing I’m surprised that there are not more accidents. Whilst on duty at NCI Stone Point we...
8th August: Fastnet Race
On Sunday, 8th August, I arrived at Lepe Country Park early for my afternoon Watch at NCI Stone Point to watch and take photographs of...
13th August: Car Damage
I left the house to drive out to Lepe Country park for Coastwatch duty only to find that someone had run into my car! There...
17th August: Start of the ASTO 401 race
Photographs of the start of the Association of Sail Training Organisations race to commemorate the 401st anniversary of the Mayflower.
29th August: Offshore Power Boats
The Cowes-Torquay-Cowes and Cowes-Poole-Cowes annual power boat races were held on the 29th August 2021. I was booked on the afternoon shift at Calshot Tower...
8th September: Garden pride!
While having my morning cup of tea it struck me that me “garden” – mainly the planters on the jetty staging – was looking good,...
8th September: Visit to VTS
The NCI Calshot Tower Social group had organised a visit to the Southampton Vessel Traffic Services “VTS”. Originally it was meant to be a “virtual”...
11th September: Boat Show
On Saturday September 11th I helped man the NCI stand at the Southampton Boat Show. Although I felt that there were fewer people there than...