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Recent trip to Weymouth – so pretty and so nice to be in the centre of the town with its colourful buildings. Great mix of yachts old and new and commercial fishing vessels. Good downwind sail to Lulworth Cove flying the cruising chute.
This is a great coastline – magnificent scenery.
A fab stag sailing weekend with a great group. Light winds made for an easy start on Saturday but some real sailing in 22 knots of wind on Sunday. The guys really got ‘into it’ playing the main sheet in the gusts and they seemed to love the adrenalin rush as the gusts came through…
Stag sailing video This video was made by Pete from the 3 boat Stag weekend mentioned below. I am now just back from a hen weekend on the same boat with similar conditions – maybe a little more sunshine. Still needed a reef in. I think the ladies loved the exciting conditions and all got…
Solent Wildlife in all its forms. This ‘thing’ found its way into the inlet pipe for the heads. Sadly it didn’t survive but it succeeded in preventing sea water being flushed into the toilet. After much hot work we succeeded in pumping it out and now have a working toilet again. However the previous day…
The Captain of the Island Sailing Club Cricket Team has kindly sent me this Utube video. I just have to share it – such a remarkable event – long may it continue. I sailed around the Bank the day after the match and couldn’t see it but you know it is lurking and here is…
Apart from Stag/Hen and family/friend weekends I have now skippered lots of Corporate Charter days. Sailing as a form of Corporate Entertainment is brilliant and an excellent great value alternative to the more usual rugby/golf/racing days. We have circa 6 people on the boat – usually 2 hosts and 4 customers/clients. Everyone gets a chance…
Still sailing up to the end of October. Just completed a series of team days with 4 boats each day – around 150 people in total – most had never set foot on a boat. We started with strong wind and ended with very calm days but everyone had a fantastic time – even if…