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Another James
My post about the James Autocycle promoted Greg to send me this pic of his 1952 James Colonel trials bike…197cc big brother of the Autocycles which he's owned for over 50 years, looking really nice...
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Digital Training Vessel
This looks to be the new digital training vessel owned an operated by South Hampshire College Group.According to a recent announcement SHCG ordered the vessel which is powered by Robosys Voyager AI,...
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Up river
With the rain and strong winds we've been seeing for what feels like months, I haven't been to the upper reaches of the Hamble for getting on for half a year.Between the slipway at the old quay and the...
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Double Ender
A poor photo of a really well prepared double ender (canoe stern) ready for the start of the season.
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D Day remembered in Hamble
The evening of 6th June saw a crowd gather in remembrance of D Day, a march from the village square assembled on the deck of the Royal Southern YC for a ceremony led by the Bishop of Southampton and...
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Rinamara
Looking fabulous for the new season up at the Elephant boatyard. Rinamara is a McGruer 47 built in 1968 influenced in some ways by the American post war yawl racers
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Folk Boat Friday
Nice example of a Marieholm Folk Boat, nicely turned out for the new season.
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View from the bridge
Not in fact a ship's bridge but the road bridge connecting Woolston to Southampton over the river Itchen. Having lived in the area for so long I'd passed by and underneath on both sides of the river...
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Itchenor after the races
Not having been there for a couple of years, we spent a very pleasant idle hour having a picnic and watching the Saturday racers returning to their moorings and the general comings and goings around...
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Vroom
As a bit of a recovering petrol head I can't help checking out interesting cars. The long wheelbase beach buggy had the advantage of four seats and for the builder removed the need to cut out a...
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Just enough
Just enough breeze to get around,but a good day to have paddle or oars aboard.
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Bridge perspectives
A few close up observations of the local scene taken from the Itchen bridge. This must have been magnificent in her day, pilot hour schooner, guessing around 60 to 70 feet, judging y the rust streaks...
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Folkboat Friday
Or rather folk boat derivative, the Contessa 26.The story goes that Lymington yacht builder Jeremy Rogers co operated with one of his Folkboat clients David Sadler to design a (then) modern and...
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Vintage Hydroplanes
Prompted by the hydroplane in a recent post, friend Greg sent me the elevation and plan for this little beauty which although small, around 12 feet overall could actually carry a passenger and looks...
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Redcliff
Redcliff YC occupies a delightful spot on the river Frome a short way downstream of Wareham. Walking along the riverbank path takes one past the moorings with both small and surprisingly large craft...
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Swanage scene
Mrs BB and I took ourselves off for a few days to the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset to an Air B&B between Corfe and Swanage, for some reason we were drawn into Swanage most days to see what was going...
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Shipstal Point
Hidden away at the far end of a nature reserve is Shipstal point which looks out from the eastern shore over the waters of Poole harbour. It's one of those places that I've often intended to visit...
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Dinghy sale
Abandoned dinghies being sold off by Lymington Harbour Master I've written previously about the English habit of dinghy neglect and looking at these examples they seem to be more suitable for planting...
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Swanage Railway Corfe Castle Station
The Isle of Purbeck is somewhat peculiar, actually a peninsular which is separated by two rivers and a high ridge in a gap of which nestles the remains of Corfe castle which is connected to Swanage a...
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Blacksmith for the digtal age
Long gone are the days of taking the horse to the local forge to have the blacksmith make and fit horseshoes. Enter the digital age, book online, your blacksmith turns up with mobile anvil and forge...
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