Seahope
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Wow! What a great day to be out on your boat 
Can all days be like today :-)
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Sneds
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Sure was!
Mymobo
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Wife's birthday so no boating for me. The only horse power I have seen all weekend is the one's with four legs. But a whole lot of brownie points have been banked.
Sneds
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See you next weekend then Weather permitting
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Bailed out of Canary Wharf at 4.30 on Friday, call to swmbo: load up!
On the boat, and managed to launch at 7pm into the sunset towards the lure of Cowes and the Folly. We moor on the luxury pontoon for a tenner - it has extra seagull poo.
7.30am - Hey? is it 2012? Which way up is the boat? Where did that tidal wave come from? Ah, a pa(arse)ing boat totally ignoring the speed limit, that explains it. Everyone's awake now, so we set off after a slightly mad tender ride to West Cowes and back to get all the stuff we forgot on Friday. It's as flat as a flat thing, and 24kts seems comfortable, so down towards Swanage we go.
After beaching it for a bit, we moor up in Cobbs Quay and light the barbie. Elderly Mum jumps on a bus and walks for ages to join us - the 5yr old ends up trying to teach her new dance "moves". Ooops, haven't used this barbie before and try to light all the briquettes in the base, not the 1st rack. Health and Safety failure as I put the rack in the right place, then transfer 3Kg of red-hot coals one briquette at a time to the right place using the tongs. One hour after we've finished eating the last chunk of meat, swmbo announces that the barbie is "about right to cook on now".
It's been musical beds during the night, and I wake up in the smallest cabin with a pink blanket, a collection of small fluffy toys, and a cold that I didn't have before. I get the timings of the Poole lifting bridge completely wrong: although everyone else is ready to join the Charge of the Light Brigade for the 10:30am, we have no fuel, so have to wait 2 hours for the next one. D'Oh.
By this time it's low tide, but I think that taking the short cut across to Brownsea Island might work on the basis that I see some other boats trying it. Wrong Wrong! Depth alarm goes off, sounder is showing 0.1ft (below the props) and we are churning mud
Outdrives up to +35, and we spin around and manage to get back into the channel with all propellors still looking approximately propellor shaped. Go around and use the "Wych" channel - much better idea. Brownsea Island is Fab. Magical ferns, forests, mini-lakes, and views over Poole Harbour, plus most non-boaty tourists never get as far as the Pottery Pier end.
Head back towards the Solent, and stop off briefly for a tea break. As we boil up, a boat heads towards us from the shore near Kings Quay Creek. He tells us that he had anchored there in the morning, then fell asleep for a bit. He woke up tilted over at 25', and had to wait six hours before floating off
. We set off again with Pasta Bake cooking in the oven at 24kts - is this allowed? I try not to decorate the interior with Pasta Bake as we navigate the last few miles to East Head, where Apple Sausages and the last of the drinks cabinet gets added into the mix. Swmbo finishes off by successfully docking in a Force 0, to which the 5yr old causes us all to laugh by clapping slowly and saying "Bravo" several times. Who taught her that 
Anyway, it's weekends like this that make owning a boat worthwhile
On the boat, and managed to launch at 7pm into the sunset towards the lure of Cowes and the Folly. We moor on the luxury pontoon for a tenner - it has extra seagull poo.
7.30am - Hey? is it 2012? Which way up is the boat? Where did that tidal wave come from? Ah, a pa(arse)ing boat totally ignoring the speed limit, that explains it. Everyone's awake now, so we set off after a slightly mad tender ride to West Cowes and back to get all the stuff we forgot on Friday. It's as flat as a flat thing, and 24kts seems comfortable, so down towards Swanage we go.
After beaching it for a bit, we moor up in Cobbs Quay and light the barbie. Elderly Mum jumps on a bus and walks for ages to join us - the 5yr old ends up trying to teach her new dance "moves". Ooops, haven't used this barbie before and try to light all the briquettes in the base, not the 1st rack. Health and Safety failure as I put the rack in the right place, then transfer 3Kg of red-hot coals one briquette at a time to the right place using the tongs. One hour after we've finished eating the last chunk of meat, swmbo announces that the barbie is "about right to cook on now".
It's been musical beds during the night, and I wake up in the smallest cabin with a pink blanket, a collection of small fluffy toys, and a cold that I didn't have before. I get the timings of the Poole lifting bridge completely wrong: although everyone else is ready to join the Charge of the Light Brigade for the 10:30am, we have no fuel, so have to wait 2 hours for the next one. D'Oh.
By this time it's low tide, but I think that taking the short cut across to Brownsea Island might work on the basis that I see some other boats trying it. Wrong Wrong! Depth alarm goes off, sounder is showing 0.1ft (below the props) and we are churning mud
Outdrives up to +35, and we spin around and manage to get back into the channel with all propellors still looking approximately propellor shaped. Go around and use the "Wych" channel - much better idea. Brownsea Island is Fab. Magical ferns, forests, mini-lakes, and views over Poole Harbour, plus most non-boaty tourists never get as far as the Pottery Pier end.Head back towards the Solent, and stop off briefly for a tea break. As we boil up, a boat heads towards us from the shore near Kings Quay Creek. He tells us that he had anchored there in the morning, then fell asleep for a bit. He woke up tilted over at 25', and had to wait six hours before floating off
. We set off again with Pasta Bake cooking in the oven at 24kts - is this allowed? I try not to decorate the interior with Pasta Bake as we navigate the last few miles to East Head, where Apple Sausages and the last of the drinks cabinet gets added into the mix. Swmbo finishes off by successfully docking in a Force 0, to which the 5yr old causes us all to laugh by clapping slowly and saying "Bravo" several times. Who taught her that Anyway, it's weekends like this that make owning a boat worthwhile
Mymobo
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Now I am depressed.
Firefly625
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yeh, it was my SWMBO birthday too, best weekend of the year so far and we were 100 miles away from the coast... sometimes a birthday every year just seems a bit much IMO
rafiki_
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Fantastic weekend. Great weather, and even more importantly, nothing broke, or went wrong, nor did we hit anything.
Very rare.
Very rare.
PaulGooch
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Great weekend here on the East coast too. Short weekend for us due to work commitments this week, but still very nice. Let's hope for some more of the same next weekend.
Peanuts
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When I got back to CQ on sunday I was told you had been moored off Pottery Pier, I was only just round the corner from you. Then I found out you were in CQ overnight, if I had known we could have met up and had a chat, even meet up with some of the CQ forumites! But you seemed to have been occupied with the barbie anyway. What pontoon were you on?
I did hear someone asking about a 11.30 lift didn't know it was you though.
As you say it was a good weekend, lets just hope it is the first of many for this year.
Steve
oGaryo
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Yep, great weekend.. met up with (Dunstable) Steve on Saturday for a blat over to Cowes from Lymington and a rather interesting attempt to cook burgers with the new rail mount bbq met up with Wiggo on Sunday for lunch in Colwell Bay, again, a first rate event probably helped by leaving the somewhat temperamental bbq in the locker this time.. best of all, it was SWMBO's first trip out and dare I say, she loved it which bodes well for future boaty happenings. Mum in law was with us too and is off work with sunstroke this week
Steve, will try and pop round this week to get the vid of us pootling over to Cowes loaded on to the PC and on to the forum mate.
met up with Wiggo on Sunday for lunch in Colwell Bay, again, a first rate event probably helped by leaving the somewhat temperamental bbq in the locker this time.. best of all, it was SWMBO's first trip out and dare I say, she loved it which bodes well for future boaty happenings. Mum in law was with us too and is off work with sunstroke this weekSteve, will try and pop round this week to get the vid of us pootling over to Cowes loaded on to the PC and on to the forum mate.
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Hi,
It was all very spur-of-the-moment!
We were on A127 or thereabouts. I think Geoffs might have been nearby somewhere as well.
I've never seen so many S28's in one place: I counted five, then another four joined the Q for the 10:30 bridge!
Will try and be a bit more organised next time
dave.
GrowingLad
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This was from Monday. It was sort of a public holiday for some (No idea why but some companies don't always give this day off...lucky for me I don't work for one of them)
Forcast was for a bit of a grotty day...as you can see they didn't quite get that right.
Decided to blow caution to the wind concerning petrol burnt, open up the throttle and go for a blast across from the main land to Evia Island.
I saw an Island on the chart that look worth an exploration, some nice little spots to anchor up, good shelter and lovely looking seas but unfortunately they are just rocks with a bit of green, not even a pebble beach, let alone sand.
Oh well, still good fun to explore the local area.
Forcast was for a bit of a grotty day...as you can see they didn't quite get that right.
Decided to blow caution to the wind concerning petrol burnt, open up the throttle and go for a blast across from the main land to Evia Island.
I saw an Island on the chart that look worth an exploration, some nice little spots to anchor up, good shelter and lovely looking seas but unfortunately they are just rocks with a bit of green, not even a pebble beach, let alone sand.
Oh well, still good fun to explore the local area.
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