Summary: Portland to Brixham. 58 miles in 8 hours and 55 minutes. Started in fairly murky weather and gradually improved though wind dies a couple of hours before the end. With a particularly grotty forecast for several days, I headed back home for a while and Anne and I came …
June 2-4th 2012 The main reason for getting the boat to Portland was to take part in the RYA Passage to Portland Rally. The rally was timed to coincide with the Skandia Sail for Gold Regatta. This event is one of a world series of dinghy events but takes on …
Summary: 31.6 miles in 4 hours and 45 minutes. From Portland marina to Portland marina via Lulworth Cove. Bob and Jilly and George arrived after an early morning start to a fairly murky day. Visibility was only a couple of miles and the wind was blowing resolutely from the east – …
Summary: Poole to Portland marina. 32.8 miles in 5 hours and 45 minutes. Light winds most of the way, but managed to tack across and sail for most of the trip. Paul and I left Poole about 08:50 with a very light breeze. We had to motor out through the …
On the way across Poole Bay, we were buzzed by a Coastguard rescue helicopter. After trying unconvincingly to tell Alex and his friends that I had arranged a flypast for them, we realised they wanted us to call them. A large board held out of their door with ‘73‘ in …
Summary: Lymington to Poole. 33.7 miles in five and a quarter hours. A nice breeze – W to SW between 3-5. Tacked all the way across and were buzzed by a Coastguard rescue helicopter in Poole Bay and asked to take part in a hi-line rescue training exercise. Alex, Ian, …
It has taken me a while, but I noticed this morning that I was moored in Lymington opposite a famous, or perhaps more accurately an infamous boat. She is called Solitaire of Hamble and is Bruce Roberts 34 owned and built by Les Powles. He still lives aboard her in …
Summary: Gosport to Lymington. 20.8 miles in three and three quarter hours. A fast run through the hustle and bustle of the Solent with around 25 knots of wind from the SE. After a wander round Priddy’s Yard and the rest of the Royal Clarence Yard, we set off about …
In Gosport we berthed in the Royal Clarence marina. This is a Transeurope marina and is based in a new development in what used to be the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard. The Royal Clarence Victualling Yard was set up in the early 1830s as an expansion of the Weevil Yard. …
Summary: Brighton to Gosport. 49.8 miles in 7 hours and 45 minutes. Motored most of the way with very little wind and very little visibility. Ended up motoring blind through fog for around an hour. We left Brighton around 9.30am aiming for the Looe Channel off Selsey Bill and then …