Bad luck comes in three's... :o)

So on Easter Monday, with a late afternoon tide, smallest little'un and I decided to make a break for it and see of we could slip in a couple of hours sailing before we had to go back to school/work... Weather had changed significantly from the Friday, and we now had (and still have) a gusty northerly...

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Round Hayling..

As I was unable to get out last weekend I was really looking forward to getting out on the water this weekend. First though some excellent service from Home Marine at Emsworth Yacht Harbour where Bill fitted the replacement eBay tank for free. He said he guarantees all his work and clearly the spot...

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Sunny afternoon... tack, tack, tack....

A lovely weekend in the UK, hottest temperatures year to date, but the tides were late so I only managed a short sail late'ish on Sunday afternoon... Slipped the mooring at about 15:00, after filling the outboard*, and drifted off down the channel past Northney Marina. Lovely and sunny, but not much...

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There you are...

..minding your own business and look who comes sneaking up behind you... ..this is Sid, a mate of mine going back far more years than I care to remember... back in the day we both (along with a bunch of other guys) used windsurf a lot, in fact Sid still does, it's only me who got old... This is...

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First cruise... NE Pilsey...

...and we're off... no one killed, no one died, nothing broken, nothing hit... result! Forecasts for the weekend are pretty much the same for both days but given that tomorrow is Mothers Day here in the UK I decided to grab some time on the water today... Track is as follows - you can click on...

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..and rigged...

Got to love these new lighter evenings as a result of the clocks going back in the UK... I grabbed a couple of hours on Sunday to rig the sails, but didn't manage to get it finished due to family pressures (they were sitting at the edge of the sea shore opposite me, shouting that they were cold...

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