strakeryrius
Well-Known Member
Today seems to have been the only day when reasonable weather was forecast for about a week back and for the next few days too. I wasn't going to waste the opportunity to get out on the water while the Poole Harbour speed limit still doesn't apply, so got up an an unfeasibly early hour in order to get to the boat and have a chance to check her over after the winter works have been completed.
It wasn't a good start, and I thought to myself "Why not just go back to bed?" as it was raining and cold in Kent, but I'm glad I persevered as by the time I got to Farnborough on the M3 the sun had come out and it was a glorious day.
All was quiet when I got to the marina - the first thing one of my neighbours said was "What are you doing here so early - did you **** in the bed or something?" Charming!
The sun was still only just coming up.
The view from the helm while still at my berth - so calm!
The view across Holes Bay towards Poole.
Looking back into the marina - still hardly anyone about. I thought that slightly odd given how good the forecast was.
This was from just outside the chain ferry - to borrow a turn of phrase already re-coined by Jimmy the Builder it was "flatter than a flat thing!" Old Harry in the distance.
I decided it was a good day to let her stretch her sea legs and go for a good run - this one taken not very long afterwards when the sun went rather dramatically behind the only cloud in the sky.
There was nobody at either Studland or Swanage so I pressed on - this taken looking back from Anvil Point towards Old Harry and Bournemouth.
My final destination - Mupe Bay and not another boat in sight - well not another pleasure boat anyway.
Anchored up in about 6m no more than 20 yards off the shore. Broke out the beers and ..... relaxed. This was the view back the way I had come - still so calm.
The weather was glorious - ate lunch wearing just a t-shirt and shorts and had the whole place to myself for at least 2 hours until a mobo arrived and anchored up no more than 15 yards away! Would you credit it? They had a drink on their flybridge and upped anchor and off they went. They went about a half-mile out of the bay, then rather oddly spun round and came back. They then anchored about 20 yards away but even closer inshore than before, and then stayed another hour or so. I did what I always do when people anchor too close - looked the other way!
I stayed until about 4:30 when the sun started to dip and the warmth went out of the day very quickly. It was starting to get a little hazy too - probably in anticipation of the fog that is forecast for later, so I upped the anchor and sped back.
Here the obligatory wake shot on the way home - it would have been straighter but there was no-one on the helm with me taking the pics!
It was still very calm back at Poole, so I took advantage of the fact that there was no-one around to get her up to 36 knots between Aunt Betty and Brownsea Castle, and then to play silly buggers among all the nav buoys along the main channel! All in all a great day out.
It wasn't a good start, and I thought to myself "Why not just go back to bed?" as it was raining and cold in Kent, but I'm glad I persevered as by the time I got to Farnborough on the M3 the sun had come out and it was a glorious day.
All was quiet when I got to the marina - the first thing one of my neighbours said was "What are you doing here so early - did you **** in the bed or something?" Charming!
The sun was still only just coming up.
The view from the helm while still at my berth - so calm!
The view across Holes Bay towards Poole.
Looking back into the marina - still hardly anyone about. I thought that slightly odd given how good the forecast was.
This was from just outside the chain ferry - to borrow a turn of phrase already re-coined by Jimmy the Builder it was "flatter than a flat thing!" Old Harry in the distance.
I decided it was a good day to let her stretch her sea legs and go for a good run - this one taken not very long afterwards when the sun went rather dramatically behind the only cloud in the sky.
There was nobody at either Studland or Swanage so I pressed on - this taken looking back from Anvil Point towards Old Harry and Bournemouth.
My final destination - Mupe Bay and not another boat in sight - well not another pleasure boat anyway.
Anchored up in about 6m no more than 20 yards off the shore. Broke out the beers and ..... relaxed. This was the view back the way I had come - still so calm.
The weather was glorious - ate lunch wearing just a t-shirt and shorts and had the whole place to myself for at least 2 hours until a mobo arrived and anchored up no more than 15 yards away! Would you credit it? They had a drink on their flybridge and upped anchor and off they went. They went about a half-mile out of the bay, then rather oddly spun round and came back. They then anchored about 20 yards away but even closer inshore than before, and then stayed another hour or so. I did what I always do when people anchor too close - looked the other way!
I stayed until about 4:30 when the sun started to dip and the warmth went out of the day very quickly. It was starting to get a little hazy too - probably in anticipation of the fog that is forecast for later, so I upped the anchor and sped back.
Here the obligatory wake shot on the way home - it would have been straighter but there was no-one on the helm with me taking the pics!
It was still very calm back at Poole, so I took advantage of the fact that there was no-one around to get her up to 36 knots between Aunt Betty and Brownsea Castle, and then to play silly buggers among all the nav buoys along the main channel! All in all a great day out.
we're in cornwall for Easter but will definitely be up for a joint trip out sometime soon.. had a mini upgrade from the binliner bowrider to a Fletcher 19GTSC so still very much constrained by the weather I'm afraid
