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But I'm now sat on one of the moorings off Yarmouth drinking tea and eating gingerbread. (Originally sailed onto the mooring in order to stow sails and bowsprit, rig warps and fenders etc in slow time. But then decided I didn't really need anything of the shore tonight so why bother going in.)

The Solent chop we had today doesn't play well with my boat, that and all the excess windage I have when close-reefed held us down to a bit over 2 knots average through the water while beating up here. Wouldn't have bothered were it not for the helpful West Solent tide turning that into five knots over the ground.

All downhill tomorrow though.

Pete
 
I was meant to be going to Yarmouth today for a club rally but pulled out due to the forecast combination of wind strength and direction so I spent the day installing a new VHF complete with DSC instead.
 
Spent the day in the marina replacing bottle screws inc toggle and forks.
Trouble is new bottle screws are slightly longer than the old.
Consequently had to shorten the rigging. (Without shortening the rigging wire all the adjustment would be taken up before the rigging went tight.) Another classic how long does a 10 minute job take?
 
Had a small tear in the genny, got it down, took it to Crusader (and if the A31 when the Olympics are on is anything like it was today half the intending spectators will miss it) had a detailed (but inconclusive) discussion on what the hell had ripped it then had them say if you like to wait we'll do it now. So one coffee later picked up the sail, "No charge to help customer relations" back to the boat fitted the sail, had a darn good coffee and a dougnut and reckoned a splendid day.

Mark you as I drove past Lee on Solent most of the boats I could see had 2 or 3 reefs in.
 
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Scuttled back to Portsmouth this morning after a day storm bound in Yarmouth, never seen so much space there! Excellent sail under ketch rig of jib and mizen. Amazingly whilst there there were two boats out on the bouys yesterday, why not come in as plenty of space?!
 
Being lashed by reputed F8 southerly with heavy rain in Queen Anne's Battery marina, Plymouth. Quite cozy, as I have Mrs Ru88ell with me.
 
Club Duty day

My turn for a duty at Spinnaker Club today. Being Principal Race Officer for the Solo Open event. Spent the day bobbing about in the tiny committee boat. Wind was straight down the lake so managed to set them a good starting beat, a bear-away run then a round-up for another short beat then a dead downwind run to a gybe mark followed by a screaming beam reach (eehaaa...splash) back to the beginning.

Got 4 races in and everyone seemed to have a great time. All went to schedule pretty much, even allowing for a couple of short delays while a competitor went ashore for minor boat repairs. A great day.

Thanks to all the team who helped :)
 
chubby said:
Amazingly whilst there there were two boats out on the bouys yesterday, why not come in as plenty of space?!
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Why come in? I don't need to buy anything, I don't need a shower, I have plenty of fresh water, there would be no point plugging into the electricity as I still haven't bought a new battery charger. If I had a mate with me then we'd probably want to go to the pub, but I'm not going to go and sit there like Billy No-Mates on me tod, am I? So I could go and bounce off other people's boats with squeaky fenders all night, or hang off this mooring silently with the bows into the wind. I haven't had to stow my bowsprit, or rig warps and fenders, all i had to do was dip a boathook in the water. If I'm honest I do still find manoeuvring in marinas mildly stressful, especially on my own. To get onto the mooring, I didn't even need to start the engine.

That's why I'm on a buoy tonight, dunno about your other boats :)

Pete
 
Had promised to take some non sailors out but weather rubbish so sat in the cockpit getting cold and eating Pizza.

They loved it though.

Got a cold coming on so came home. Now toying with lighting a log fire and it's almost July :mad:
 
Was on a outing, taking a bunch of kids to Lepe then Calshot yesterday.

Conditions looked rough. Around midday, saw a few boats looking like there were struggling and some simply give up and turn back as the tide started to go out, giving wind over tide.

Was suprised that some were coming right past (north of) the SCM into the shallow water before tacking. I know it was high tide but I could see the change in the waves. Could'nt have been a comfortable place to be.

Slightly off topic, I had not been to Clashot for 20 years. Was suprised, its actually a nice place now. There was plently going on and I could see that on a slightly nicer day, it would be buzzing with dingys, cats, windsurfers, etc.

Not my thing but the kids enjoyed the snow boarding / skiing ramps and there were plenty of both kids and adults on the climbing walls.

Ru$$ell, it was also a mecca for trailor sailers. I beleive that launch and storage is quite cheap, so could give you a central Solent place to start from.
 
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