9th April: In search of Chart Datum
The concept of “Chart Datum” is fundamental to understanding the depths on charts or interpreting tide tables and yet in the lectures to trainee NCI...
Category: Annual Categories
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....
April 12th: Where to put the Loo?
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...
15th April: Boracol and Fender Board
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...
22nd April: Spray Hood and Mast Top
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...
24th April: Tidal Surge Forecasts
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...
5th May: Storm Brendan Revisited
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...
6th to 9th May: Spray Hood & new Anemometer
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...
18th May: another virus update
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...
18 -26th May: Venturing outside!
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...