Chichester to Plymouth Part 1

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For all you forumites who dont like photo posts hit the back button now.

Had a great two weeks (been back a week now) cruising the south coast.

Had a few problems posting this, so this is a final attempt. I did have some comments between the photos, but that page locked up, I was able to use the back button to at least get back to the photo links I had entered, but its so much hard work I cant be bothered to type in all the comments again.

So in brief this sequence is Chichester to Allum Bay, where we anchored for lunch and enjoyed watching the other boats around us. (The Blue and white boat pic 9 I think is not us by the way just a nice looking boat near by)


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Leaving the Needles behind us as we head for Poole
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I will post part 2 when I get a chance
 

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For all you forumites who dont like photo posts hit the back button now.


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and from us forumites that do like photos - brilliant post. It's good to see someone getting the sunshine.

and from us forumites from different parts of the planet...

care to name some of the locations for us?

Thanks for posting.
 

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Hi Son Vida

You know I sat there adding comment between each photo until suddenly the little scroll bar went gray beside the box, and there was only the intro bit of text. All the rest was missing, I tried undo in case I had accidentally deleted a chunk, but there was nothing to undo. Thankfully the back button still had a page with all the links to the photos. (its a real pain adding them) My youngest was upstairs feeling sick so I was having to run to him every 5 mins, in the end I just ran out of enthusiasm.

Calshot at the entrance to southampton Water is the shots with the industrial towers in the background, Allum Bay where we were at anchor is on the IOW just east of the Needles.

The White Flybridge, the yacht and the brown landing craft type thing were boats we passed in the Solent. Thought the owners might like to see them, if they happen to be on the forum.

I will try to find some time to post part 2.

The weather since then has be real crap. I cant believe how lucky we were. Particularly as its only our second season and we had not been this far before, so the thought of crossing Lyme Bay and being out of sight of land for an hour or so was on my mind. Thankfully it was calm (mostly) both ways, just a bit rough off Portland and that was staying 8 miles off..!

I like to see photo posts so I am glad you liked them, I know you always do a good job keeping us entertained with photos so you have my thanks also.

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Thanks for that D.

I will get the charts out and have a good shufty at your trip.

It's good to see you progress so well - I remember your previous posts.

You can consider yourself well and truly hooked.

Regards,
SV.
 

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Thanks Rick,

I will try to do a better job with comments when I get around to part 2, As I explained further up I did actually have comments between most photos but somehow lost them and couldnt be bothered to do them all agin, so I just edited the intro with a bit more info.

In case anyone is wondering the 1st shot is Chichester Harbour and the 3rd is the calmest I have ever seen chichester Bar, normally I see half of all the other boats ever 2-3 seconds when they rise up out of the troughs /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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If it helps...

I normally write the text on Word then C&P over between the images.

Saves a lot of bovver.
 

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That's a good idea, in the past I have written a bit of text, added a photo, written a bit of text added a phots etc etc.

This time I added all the photos and then began adding the lines between them until it went wrong. Maybe I had more than some limit allows?

I'll try your method for the next lot which will probably be Poole Harbour down to Plymouth.

Cheers

D
 

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The White Flybridge, the yacht and the brown landing craft type thing were boats we passed in the Solent. Thought the owners might like to see them, if they happen to be on the forum.

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Cracking pictures.

The owner of the 'brown landing craft thing' lives here. I hope she posts a reply. /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif
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Cracking pictures.

The owner of the 'brown landing craft thing' lives here. I hope she posts a reply.

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Now she used to have a great little cruiser, think its parked up in Edinburgh now /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif
 

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I normally use MS Word if I am writing anything more than a quick reply. Not only does it mean that should I loose the internet or if my PC crashes I don't loose it but it also means that I have a record of my writings seperate from the forum.

It's far easier to edit and move things around than in the little box on the forum page too and you can write the post over several days particularly if it is a trip report.

If you don't have MS Word then any wordprocessor, or even Notepad (which is on every Windows PC) would do.
 
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