We have come back to the boat after heading home to go to the Olympic Park to watch the hockey and have decided to use the boat as a base for a week or two to explore Northern Ireland. We have hired a car and plan to head off in …
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 …
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 …
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. …
Rig Magic came down today to set up the rig. It was useful to have it professionally set-up and find out how it should be done. The Starlight has a double spreader masthead rig, so it was useful to see the process for getting appropriate tension on this rig.
Well, the boat is back in the water ready for the season. She was put in the water on Tuesday 10th April and stayed moored at the craning jetty for a couple of days waiting for a crane to put the mast back in. On Thursday the mast was craned …
Quite a bit of work was done on Charmary over the winter 2011/12. Water had been leaking into the aft cabin during the 2011 season through the steering pedestal. Richard helped me with a temporary fix with large and messy amounts of sealant while we were in Brighton in June …