April 14th: Not “Calm” except at the Jetty!
On Sunday (14th April) I went on watch to find that, despite a force 4 to 5 ESE wind, the sea state had been entered...
Diary Entry / 2019 / NCI (2019) / March-April: Windy at first
by Peter Taylor · Published 15/04/2019 · Last modified 01/05/2019
On Sunday (14th April) I went on watch to find that, despite a force 4 to 5 ESE wind, the sea state had been entered...
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...
A BBC News item featuring Liz Kent and Sea Surface Temperature research at the National Oceanography Centre.
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 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/07/2019 · Last modified 19/07/2019
[NB this is my “Diary Entry”; Raid photos are available via “Swallow Yachts Raid 2019“] I drove down to Cornwall on Monday 24th June calling...
Diary Entry / 2019 / June: "Season stops!"
by Peter Taylor · Published 01/07/2019 · Last modified 02/07/2019
It’s Swallow Yachts Raid time! As usual I’m helping with one of the safety ribs. Today, Monday I drove down to Falmouth calling in at...
This year I decided to drive to Falmouth on the Monday, to have a day of sight-seeing today, Tuesday, before the Swallow Yachts Raid which...
Wednesday June 26th: For the morning the start line extended northwards from the green Mylor fairway buoy to the race rib. There were two starts,...
Wednesday June 26th (cont): As the fleet approached St. Mawes, heavy drizzle forced me to use a waterproof “snap shot” camera (3 photos with numbers...