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Politically incorrect Merry Christmas
Forget Winter holiday, The holiday Season, Yuletide, Festive greetingsIt starts with C and rhymes with isthmusHave a really good one - Happy Christmas
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Winter rowing
Compared to the north of the country, Storm Eva passed us by with little more than high winds whistling down the chimney and yet more rain lashing the windows.With four days off and warm weather in...
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A Big Question for a New Year
That's a very big question and one I spend far too much time pondering and not nearly enough deciding on big answers.On the one hand there's the view that 20 years from now you will only regret the...
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Fortunately we didn't see this video before Christmas or this might have been on Joseph's wish list to Santa.Some very clever folks at IBM just down the road in Winchester, who admittedly aren't quite...
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Summer days - Lasers on Wolfgangsee
Last summer up in the Austrian mountains, we stumbled upon a Laser regatta at the Union Yacht Club on Wolfgangsee near Salzburg.It was a great location, the club looked modern and had good access to...
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Emsworth Winter Views
A friend's boat on the mud at Dolphin Quay, the subject of a controversial development application. Wooden boat specialist Tim Gilmore was forced off the site which was the last remaining boat building...
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Too many boats
Fellow blogger My2Sfish recently asked "How many is too many" boats? To which my reply was you can't have too many boats but I'm gonna need a bigger garage.And here's the problem, if you look closely...
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Hurst
With a crisp and clear morning in prospect we set off for breakfast in Lymington, lovey driving through the New Forest with frost still on the ground and mist rising in the bright early...
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Bridge Under Troubled Waters
The footpath across Hamble Common floods quite often at high water springs, but I don't think I've ever seen it this high.
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Old and New
Since the early 1980's the Cornish Shrimper has been the classic day boat and weekender for pottering around the estuaries and coastal sailing. With numbers over the 1000 built it's a successful and...
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Morgan Giles Fleet
I spotted these two Morgan Giles 43's a while ago when they were in the hard getting prepared for the season, so it was nice to see them on the water down by the lock gates at Chichester Marina.The...
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Local Knowledge
I was able to help out fellow blogger Tillerman recently having spotted the Cowes Hammerhead crane in an old sailing photo of him from back in the 1980's. For anyone who's traveled up the Median river...
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Weymouth
Realising that it’s been quite a few years since we visited and with a settled day in prospect we drove over to Weymouth in Dorset.The town established itself as a seaside destination and no doubt...
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Winter Views
A brief window of high pressure at the dead of winter, the moorings are empty apart from one lone yacht.A few more boats on the pontoons, the few afloat are locked up, presumably too cold, too early in...
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Not Ankle Deep
We stumbled upon this interesting boat in a local yard. Some time ago I started a thread on the Wooden boat forum about Low Horsepower Planning Boats, which was very popular and has some very...
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Wild Weekend
It was a wild and sometimes wet Saturday as the latest storm blew through. We had lunch down at the shack or as it's been renamed The Beach Hut Cafe watching the SSW wind howling and pushing waves...
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Greg's tent
While we were down in Hamble watching the affects of the latest storm, we bumped into our friend and local boat builder Greg, He's building a new gaffer up at the Elephant and was a bit worried about...
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Stokes Bay surfing
Joseph was at a birthday party over in Gosport, so while we waited for him we dropped in at Stokes Bay, not having been there for ages. The wind had dropped overnight, but it was still enough to kick...
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