Category: Annual Categories

29/12/2014

29th Dec: A trip up the Hamble

A short day trip (22nm) mainly spent motoring up the River Hamble

29/12/2014

A short day trip (22nm) mainly spent motoring up the River Hamble.

30/12/2014

These plots show the winds (normally as recorded at Bramble Bank) during selected sailing trips.

01/01/2015

I’d hoped to go further in 2015 but in the event, Seatern covered about 437 nautical miles, over 300nm less than in 2014. Unless you...

15/01/2015

Not quite as bad as 2014, but January 2015 has started with day after day of strong winds; I removed the boom, mainsail and mizzen...

19/01/2015

With cold weather forecast for the coming week and the daylight hours still short, I decided to get the outboard serviced. To unlock the outboard...

24/01/2015

I got the outboard back from servicing yesterday. When I took it in I asked Kieron at the Rib Shop if there would be any...

31/01/2015

The weather has continued to be mainly zonal with strong winds on most days. Now the wind is turning northerly and it’s cold. Seatern has...

03/02/2015

The month has started cold . Having slept onboard, on the morning of the 3rd I woke to a sprinkling of snow (photos). Heat from...

05/02/2015

The kettle I’ve been using on Seatern is a 1.5 litre stainless steel whistling kettle (on right in photo). It is quite large to store...