Thorney Channel with the Red Arrows

Enough's enough - it's not been an outstanding season so far (but it's been pretty good ), so I decided to take the day off work and go for a sail... On the face of it the Metcheck forecast was perfect, sunny all day and force 2's and 3's (gusting 4) - what I got was a mostly grey (and cold!) day where...

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Round the Island Race - 2011

This is turning into a bit of a summer of "almosts" on the sailing front... two weeks ago I almost made the Nab Tower (that's still unfinished business!), and this weekend just gone we almost got to the first mark of the Round the Island Race in "Ami-Ly", Rod's boat...We were all so disappointed, but...

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Nab Tower... almost....

Took the day off on Friday for the first "double tide" trip of the year.. leave on the ebb of the first tide in the morning,and return on the flow of the next - which gives me a lift with the tide either direction...So, with the ubiquitous packet of "All Day Breakfast" sandwiches and other solid and...

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Hove to...

No - no trip out on Monday - in fact the entire weekend was a bit of a washout from the sailing perspective - lots of wind on Saturday and Sunday (but no sunshine) and a fine drizzly rain and no wind on Monday..So it was that with my wife at work, the kids on half term, and me needing to take an afternoon...

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