Weekend, doesn't get much better than this!

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Sans Bateau

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We haven't done much sailing this year, in fact this last weekend is the first time on the boat since the middle of July!

But a better weekend could not have been imagined! The wind 3 - 4 just about always in the right direction, few mobos ( that is not a gloat, it is an observation ), an overnight anchorage at Hamstead ledge with supper in the cockpit and to top it all a free air display as aircraft made their way to Shoreham, which included a B52 and the Vulcan!

Was the Bournmouth air show on this weekend as well?
 
It was our club's anual camping trip from Hill Head to Island Harbour. For the first time in years the weather was perfect.
About 15 kids sailed across in 9 dinghies. Thanks to everyone who put up with them tacking through Cowes Harbour and up the Medina.
 
Can't say ours was better ('cause it wasn't) but we had one of our few sails this year on Saturday with "visitors" as crew, (the 'downside' of living by the sea in Cornwall!) who were given the rare privelege of a pod of dolphins playing in Carrick Roads, for about half an hour.

It was misty and drizzling so very few people about so we had them to ourselves - not chased off by RIBS or Mobo's - great site and some good movie footage as they dived under our boat.

PS Water was a very strange colour that I thought was mud from the incessant rain lately but was told by the club boatman that it was "algeal-bloom" (?spelling) which is not good for the fish. We had one on the line but "it got away" Probably only a tiddler anyway! Would you want to eat it with the green stuff about?
 
galadriel said:
But a better weekend could not have been imagined! The wind 3 - 4 just about always in the right direction, few mobos ( that is not a gloat, it is an observation ), an overnight anchorage at Hamstead ledge with supper in the cockpit and to top it all a free air display as aircraft made their way to Shoreham, which included a B52 and the Vulcan! QUOTE]

Agreed. Great sail through the Solent to anchor off Bournemouth for the airshow on Saturday, lovely sail to Studland for an evening BBQ and fantastic sail back to Portsmouth on Sunday. Nice quick, comforable reach both days. I agree on the Solent being quiet mobo-wise. Must have been a stealth B52 though - B17???
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Sort of agree, but not completely ...

Nice sail through the solent (didn't spot Galadriel though!) back to home mooring, clean up, quick wash of tender that's been sat there for 2 weeks, then back home and out to a wedding reception.
Return to the club on Sunday to pressure wash off the tender where it's got green underneath and birds have been roosting on top!!
Could've been that bluddy sunny with nice winds for our bleedin hols!! oh well!
 
Ah! It was a B17 was it? I knew it was a B something, and you should know. Did we pass you near Cowes, just as the wind picked up, Sunday morning?
 
galadriel said:
Did we pass you near Cowes, just as the wind picked up, Sunday morning?
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We were passing Cowes around that time (well 11ish)flying a cruising chute (Blue, red and yellow) course was variable dependent on the wind, fun was dependant on the breeze, which died just before Gillkicker, and came back just after we dropped the colourful sail :(

We had an interesting time up at Beaulieu. I missed the bit about the double high water at springs in the almanac, came in at 2 hours after high water, been there before, no worries.

Quick rule of 12ths yep we might touch and sink into the mud, but nothing too much to worry about....I kind of mis-judged it. Instead of the 3M to go down as I thought, 4.5 metres of water disappeared from under us.

No problem in the end, we just heeled over a bit* but it only lasted an hour and a bit...and it wasn't 1/12 of the tide that ran away and came back.;)

*this might be an understatement if you saw our mast, but on board it was all right....honest:D
 
11 AM? we were well past Cowes by then, left Hamstead (Newtown Creek) about 9AM and we were in Chi Harbour just gone 12 mid day! Yes it was a great sail.
 
We spent Thurs and Fri night in Beaulieu - on a mooring just above the visitor pontoons... didn't think anything of it as our "new" boat draws over a foot less than the old one and had no problem with that one.... yet ~6am on Friday morning we stopped moving ... and then started to list! Only got over to about 10-15° - so nothing too bad and only lasted a short while (I just went back to sleep!) ....
We did move for friday night - found another free mooring with an additional foot depth... and although we didn't tip up I think we still touched the bottom ...
It wasn't until we passed RickP in the entrance when he told us about the Bramble Cricket match that I realised I should've remembered the tides being a little low around this time!! :o
 
Hi, dabchick was anchored near you off Hamstead and we enjoyed a great sail there and back, gentle wind but fair and a stonking spring tide to push us along, we enjoyed the peace of anchoring off Hamstead, usually we go into Newtown but then there is the noctural swinging to disturb sleep ( anchor I mean!)
 
Very possibly, we would have been pasing Cowes about 1145ish. If you saw a Biscay ketch with a mizzen staysail up, then it was probably us. Sorry - didn't see you or would have waved!
 
Chuby, yes that is a lovely place to anchor in fine weather. Newtown gets a bit like a ploughed field, we dragged there in July in 22knts of wind! Should not have happened.

Goldie, no we would have been past Cowes about 10 ish.
 
Yeah it wer'nt bad but my 'secret location' was inundated with motoboaters & the weather was'nt a patch on 4/5 years ago......where have all those wonderful Easterly winds gone & the temperatures up above 25?
 
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agree - great weekend - beat to lymington on saturday (well only just a beat - about 4 tacks all in and made the mistake of not tacking far enough out into the stronger tide and got overtaken ) and lymington the busiest we have seen it off the town quay this year - back to gosport on sunday with great leisurely sail with tide and back to mooring for lunch - mind you woke early saturday morning with strange noise - got up to investigate and found mobo on next mooring inshore from us sitting on top of mud bank and noise was waves slapping on his hull - been on our mooring for years and first time we have ever seen the bottom there so pretty low spring
 
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