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Same Old...
Four of us in a two boat convoy down to the Solent for a week’s eating, drinking, laughing and a bit of sailing too! That was the high-life plan but as so often before, Global Warming let us down and we sat around in the wind and rain of Eastbourne bemoaning the English weather. It wasn’t so bad for the three retirees, but one of the group had actually booked a week off work and was damply…
Hardships
Life is pretty tough aboard – eking out the stale ships biscuits and tainted water, with the lurking spectre of scurvy and having to drink your own urine. Not only that, but the relentless wash in Gosport Marina has worn through this mooring line in under a week! But there’s always someone worse off, and as I was approaching Wootton Creek on a long tack from Gilkicker Point I was keeping a…
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World On Fire!
You turn your back for a minute and the World’s caught light! I managed to get away to sail the Solent for the whole of June and indeed it was lovely and warm.In fact we’re told it was the Hottest June Ever In The Whole of Recorded History…. which is clearly pretty damn hot! A summer activity I recall from being a small boy in Lancashire, around the end of the 50s, is that we used to roll the…
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Free At Last
Finally I’ve escaped the Winter of Landlubberism for my first shakedown sail of the year! Rather later than planned and only for a few hours, but anticipation is at least as good as fulfillment – often better some say! It was a trip out to the condemned Sovereign Light Tower and it’s new circle of Cardinal Buoys. The Light Tower will be sadly missed both by non-sailing types who often ask me…
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Have Ye Seen The White Whale?
Have Ye Seen The White Whale?
It’s definitely feeling warmer! There’s finally an end in sight to those long days of dreaming – or careful planning as I prefer to think of them. The varnish has had another coat carefully slopped on.. the engine is serviced.. the lifejacket that inflated itself inside the locker is re-armed.. so it just needs the temperature to go high enough for me to be able to feel my fingers after 10…
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Micky or Dracula?
There’s a terrible noise whenever I walk through my boat! It sounds like a Hammer House of Horror special effect of either hoards of Pied Piper mice, or the slow opening of Dracula’s rusty coffin lid. And it’s recently been getting much worse! It could be that the cabin sole is just getting old, or possibly Christmas Pudding isn’t quite as low calorie as I’d managed to convince…
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Where Did That Go!
Where Did That Go!
What a great summer of 3 months drifting round the Solent and catching up with Family and Friends. Time goes by surprisingly quickly and pleasantly when you really have nothing to do and nowhere in particular to be! It’s all very of Tales of the Riverbank… Toot Toot! I really should have documented it at the time as I can’t remember it all now I’m back home opening the bills and adding up all…
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After the Apocalypse
A walk in the lovely South Downs I told you, with frequent stops at various Tea and Cake Rooms, I said.. And it’s true – that’s what we did, but there was a hidden agenda!!!! Ever mindful of the End of Days, Kevin had brought his new Basha to test out. After pumping ourselves up into a post-apocalyptic survival frenzy with Coffee, Bacon Sandwiches and Victoria Sponge, we found a quiet woodland…
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If only mine was a Bit Bigger!
If only mine was a Bit Bigger!
It’s always easy to think that if you had even a slightly bigger boat you’d sail further and use it in a wider range of conditions. Wandering round any marina and seeing the weed-infested larger sailing boats should dispel that thought, but it still lurks at the back of your mind – just another couple of metres and I’d have set sail in that rising force 6. Some say the ideal name for many boats…
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Where do I sign?
Where do I sign?
Sun! and plenty of it !! Who needs to go to Europe even if we could.. I had a great day helping a friend load a 6 metre RIB onto a trailer. This involved mooring briefly on an empty pontoon whilst the trailer was brought round to the slipway – a wait of perhaps 15 minutes. However the pontoon was owned by Southsea Moorings and within the 15 minutes of waiting I was challenged twice with…
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Is Anybody There?
Brighton… Sea Mist – well pretty close to fog really so staying put for another day It was the London to Brighton old car rally.. whenever I see this sort of thing now it’s just a long list of cars that I’ve owned. All my exes sadly consigned to piles of rust by now I’m sure, but look what I could have had if I’d looked after them! Here’s my favourite – a Sunbeam Alpine – and pretty much the…
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Big Boy
Summer – theoretically – is Here at Last.. !! I was supposed to set sail Westward today but due to persistent rain I’ve decided to wait another day. This happens so often at the beginning of my holidays… The appeal of a Motorsailer increases each year. There have been various preparations over the last few weeks… A lift, wash and anode change, which has been all that is needed since the…
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Varnish
Overdue Varnish
The Long Overdue varnishing has been long overdue for quite a while now But as it’s still too cold for sailing I finally ran out of excuses and got sanding It makes quite a mess all that sanding – I expect I’ll be clearing up fine dust for months I also got some new non slip tape – £19 at the chandlers… or £4.67 at Toolstation ! I’ve used quick drying varnish which makes five coats in a day…
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Summer Breeze
Windscoop Mk 2 is finally finished and is working well ! All those sweat shop hours, sewing my fingers to the bone, have finally paid off. Mark 2 is simpler and a big improvement over Mark 1. It’s a brighter colour too! It catches the wind from any direction and stuffs it down the hatch – so no having to adjust it as the wind or the boat shifts Here it is in action…
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Here We Go Again
Here We Go Again: Project Windscoop Continues
Hurray! The prototype windscoop is finished ! However if I ever want to make and sell these I’ll have to get the sewing time down from a gruelling 4 days! Unfortunately on testing it out there are several changes needed – – to the point of having to start all over again! I’ll be getting Sewing Machinist’s Elbow at this rate – but I now have a Clear Vision of what’s needed, which is always a…
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Optimism
In a bubble of optimism I’ve started to make a wind scoop. I’m planning on substantially improving on all the ones I’ve seen so far! Watch this space .. turns out it’s a more complicated project than it first appeared 🤯 All this work is being undertaken in the future hope that the sun will shine, it will be hot, we’ll be allowed to use our own boats and that those events will all coincide –…
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Winter Jobs
The Boarding Ladder steps were looking rather past it.
It was a bit of a nightmare getting them out of the stainless frame – a couple of rivets had to be drilled out – so I’m hoping it goes back together ok
After some serious sanding…
And then Varnishing….
That’ll do..
I didn’t want to make them look new… more old and abused but still functioning and with any imperfections glossed…
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