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Folkdance
Folk boat looking fantastic and getting ready for the season.Just can't resist, especially as it's a Friday
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Loire Boats
The Loire is a wide and powerful river flowing out to the Bay of Biscay. Here near Angers the river was pretty swollen and very fast flowing with the recent winter rains, there was flooding in some...
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Interesting Dayboat
I've seen this boat a few times while it's been ashore in Emsworth for the winter and spotted someone working on her from the other side of the mill pond. Sadly by the time we'd walked around there was...
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Ideal Yacht Tender
The walker bay dinghy makes a very good yacht tender.But isn't the dinghy supposed to go on the deck of the yacht?
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Solitaire - Les Powels
I had to do a double take when I spotted Les Powles epic cruiser Solitaire berthed in a Lymington marina recently. It was probably about 20 years ago that I read about Les, then I think in his 70's...
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My First Boat
Well actually strictly speaking it's the second, his first was a scaled down dinghy which I made as a cradle when Joesph was first born. Plus last year Joseph decided to take over Erica's kayak, but...
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Low Water Lymington
Neap tides and a midday low water over the May bank holiday weekend, not ideal to dry out and scrub unless the boat has shallow draft.Might be a while getting off this mooring down in Oxey MarshFurther...
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More damage from Storm Katy
Another victim of Storm Katy which raged over the Easter weekend, Onward of ITO was on a mooring in Keyhaven when one of the other boats broke partially loose crashing into other nearby boats.Ashore at...
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1000 Words
I sometimes get a but frustrated with Pinterest, Flickr etc. While the photos are fantastic I find myself wanting to know more, the picture might need slightly more painting than the 1000 words...
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Scrubbing Post
What could be better, warm sunshine, hardly any wind and a picturesque spot to dry out and scrub. Local cutter Aeolus pulled up at Lands End hard.Mind you that's quite a lot of scrubbing, when your...
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Always there?
Thirty years ago Howard's Way burst onto our screens, a TV saga about everyday yachting folk in the fictional village of Tarrent (Bursledon in reality), the BBC's response to Dallas.The opening title...
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Hamble River Raid 2016
It was an especially overcast day for the annual Hamble River rowing extravaganza, despite which the event was very well attended with boats and crews coming from far and wide.It's been quite a few...
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Opi fun
Joseph's Optimist dinghy acquired over winter has been out for a few times now.Some creek crawling, looking for pirate treasure with friend.Near miss avoiding a collision, although he didn't do so well...
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Whimbrel
Whimbrel I'm pretty sure is a Golant gaffer, designed by Roger Dongray, who also drew the Cornish Crabber boats.It's one of those boats that I've always wanted but it's never been the right time to...
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Hayling Island Elite
Hayling Island SC have been growing their fleet of RS Elite keelboats, the 24 foot keel boat designed to meet the requirements of the club by Phil Morrison.There were about half a dozen at the nearby...
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Mud glorious mud
For some reason I've never got around to visiting Hayling Yacht marina on the east side of Hayling island, until recently when we dropped by to see a yacht which was for sale.It must be a home from...
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The Horse & Jockey
The Hamble River SC sailing camp began with a trip through the unexplored, upper reaches of the river to the legendary Horse & Jockey pub. Accessible only to those brave enough to ride the highest...
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Motocomfort
I spotted this motorcycle outside a cafe on an island on the Loire in France, presumably either doing duty as some kind of object of interest or awaiting restoration, not sure about the bucket...
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Who needs wind
Late afternoon high water, hardly a breath of wind and 25 excited kids. No problem, get them all afloat, chasing around and having fun.They might not have learned much about short tacking and hiking,...
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Hamble River SC sailing camp pirate treasure hunt
A fantastic weekend camp included a pirate treasure hunt, with the gang of happy treasure hunters wading and riding through the winding upper reaches to Botley where a hoard of treasure included...
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