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The last post 2014
Here's hoping that 2014 was everything that it promised to be a year ago.Have a great new year and here's wishing you well for whatever endeavors you pursue in 2015
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New year's day
It was a cold and windy start to the new year. We decided have a walk around Old Portsmouth where the view across the Solent was pretty unappealing, low visibility and the strong south westerly wind...
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Christchurch Harbour
Back at the start of summer last year we took the short ferry ride from Mudford over to Hengisbury Head, the tide rushes in and out out of the narrow entrance to Christchurch harbour. It's a short...
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Busy Solent Sunday
The Bramble Bank, our local sand bar catches a few boats every year, racers cutting the corner too closely or cruising boats not paying attention, but it just goes to show it can happen to anyone. The...
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The weakest link
With Matilda Emilie sold, I left the regular survey of the mooring gear until I had some time over the Christmas break.While the shackles were in quite good condition and came apart relatively easily,...
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Winter Sailing
Sailing from the comfort of the yacht club balcony seems very sensible during the recent cold spell.There was some close racing and I guess the skippers were pretty close to the bar once they had...
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Keyhaven gaffers
In the depth of winter it's nice to recall sunny days of summer. With a midday high water and a fine settled day we took the opportunity to explore Keyhaven and the channel going down to Hurst Castle...
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Winter Calm
In contrast to the howling gales that passed through during the week Saturday morning brought a flat calm winter's day.Near the town quay in Lymington the water was like a mirror, a good day to go out...
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Fort Victoria
I couldn't get very close so the pictures of Fort Victoria don't really do her justice.She's a heavy duty single engine launch, length somewhere around 30 feet or so, strongly constructed and by the...
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Curiosity
Having a picnic lunch back in summer and watching the racing at Dell Quay we spotted this dinghy, the rig with the DB insignia clearly coming from a Yachting World Day Boat, which coincidentally is one...
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Icebreaker
The new owner of our First 21 Matilda Emilie (now renamed Valkyre) sent me some pictures of her first race from her new base in Scarborough.In Roger's own words "It was b****y cold", not exactly a...
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Where's the fleet?
A local mystery, on a recent Saturday morning the trolley park was full, trailers for Optimist dinghies or similar by the look of things.But there was no sign of anyone sailing anywhere.Maybe the Royal...
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Langstone Lugger
A couple of guys were launching Queen B down on Swanwick Hard at the back end of last year, she's currently set up as a fishing boat with an outboard and a very salty wooden ship's wheel.Other than the...
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Minstead
A cold winter's day is great for getting out in the New Forest, away from the tourist hot spots of Beaulieau, Lyndhurst and Brockenhurst you can pretty much have the place to yourself.We took the path...
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Gulls
I couldn't think of a clever caption, I just like the way these gull are looking around.If I were Tillerman I would probably have issued a caption competition t my fellow bloggers.Picture taken near...
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Opus
Opus has been on the river as long as I can remember, carvel built with a raised topsides forward of the cockpit, she's unusual and notable.The 1968 OSTAR Observer Single handed Transatlantic Race...
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Cool Address
latitude 50.47.25 North - Longitude 1.6.25 East.Sadly the door has been blocked up but what a great entrance it once was. The house is located just off the waterfront in old Portsmouth. It sure beats...
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Wayfarer
Possibly the UK's most popular cruising dinghy, largely due to the exploits of Frank Dye who famously sailed an early wooden wayfarer on open ocean voyages as far as Norway and Iceland.Designed by Ian...
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