jamesjermain
Active member
I was in Tollesbury last week testing the new Etap 32s (review in YM towards the end of the year).
It behoves all Solent sailors to visit this part of the coast from time to time. It's a different world, a different age. I saw boats of types which haven't been seen in the Solent area for years, wonderfully restored smacks and working boats, Buchanans, Gileses Robbs, Griffithses and so on by the score.
We had a damn good sail in a brisk four to five through waters the colour of liquid mud and then retired to the Tollesbury Cruising Club for a late lunch while the liquid turned solid - and, my goodness, isn't there a lot of it.
It was a thoroughly refreshing day and a reminder that there is another side to yachting than the Hamble Scramble and wall to wall Sunseeker
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And soon we're off on our hols to Cornwall and, with luck, the Isle of Scilly where it's all very different again - what a wonderful country to sail in
JJ
It behoves all Solent sailors to visit this part of the coast from time to time. It's a different world, a different age. I saw boats of types which haven't been seen in the Solent area for years, wonderfully restored smacks and working boats, Buchanans, Gileses Robbs, Griffithses and so on by the score.
We had a damn good sail in a brisk four to five through waters the colour of liquid mud and then retired to the Tollesbury Cruising Club for a late lunch while the liquid turned solid - and, my goodness, isn't there a lot of it.
It was a thoroughly refreshing day and a reminder that there is another side to yachting than the Hamble Scramble and wall to wall Sunseeker
.
And soon we're off on our hols to Cornwall and, with luck, the Isle of Scilly where it's all very different again - what a wonderful country to sail in
JJ