What sort of season did you have?

Short but made the most of it and have had some great sails even in the Solent for a change. Nice winds make for a good time.
Steveeasy
 
Short season for us.

We cancelled our March launch as we anticipated difficulty into harbours for water, fuel and provisions with the likelihood of a lockdown, so we missed all that really fine weather in April, May and June, usually the best time for us. Went in to the water in July, but back on the hard a couple of weeks ago.
 
Obvious late start. We launched as soon as the travel restrictions were lifted. From then on it was pretty much normal for us, but no races, almost no club activity, just sailing on our own.

And it was on our own. a LOT of the boats did not make it into the water this year. We only managed by a slipway launch (the joys of a small boat) the rest of the fleet that needed the crane are still on "shore leave" So whenever we have been out, there have been a lot less boats than normal on the water.

Hoping for an end of season sail on sunday then looking to bring her out for the winter, again from the slipway.

One side effect of fewer boats in, is we have had a better berth in the harbour, one with a little more water so longer access each tide. We are hoping that such a berth might become available as a permanent berth.
 
Really glad some people have been having fun. Sad for those people that life incidents have restricted their season.

Well, after nearly 15 years we parted with Gwylan. That resulted in a gentle sail to Cardiff with the new owner. Fitted in that relaxed gap we enjoyed.
One of the best trips I have had. And a nice way to say goodbye.

Now stir crazy and wonder what I was thinking of selling the boat.

Winter project to build a nesting boat. SWMBO believes it is to go exploring creeks and so on. I think it looks like a tender. Just not sure what to.

Anyway, it should fit on the camper van that replaced Gwylan
 
July.
Just about got half the jobs I wanted to do done. Got a few short sails and a decent 500nm+ then varnished and put her to bed for the winter :-(
on the plus side, i got back 2 days before Spain went back on the quarantine list here in CH.
 
Pretty good considering what else has been going on. It has taken a determined effort to make it possible, considering the challenges in life. Around the Solent and Dorset area: First sail of the year was 30 miles logged in February for a day sail. I recall it was cold but sunny and gentle winds. Then nothing until late May. Thereafter pretty good with 850 miles logged so far, including a short notice potter across the ditch (Solent) today. Looking back over the year it must have been quite windy because I recall using reefs often. Compared to previous years, for day sails, did more miles each time out because it was difficult to do the harbour and marina stuff, so simply stayed out sailing. Lots of anchoring instead of marinas. Nearly always without crew. No trips to Channel Isles or France this year, as would be usual. Very limited opportunities for racing, though good fun and hard work. Hoping to fit in a few more sailing days in November.
 
The number of times we said to each other we are so lucky to have a boat! Very aware it has been a rubbish summer for many. Lucky to have been on a swinging mooring throughout, we nearly came out for a month but lockdown intervened so it was scrub down at East Head in May/early June and change the anodes a bit later on. Its felt like a great summer weather-wise and we have swum off the boat more than ever and had well over twice the number of nights afloat, maybe 25, often never leaving Chichester harbour. Have had some really good sails too. Really looking forward to at least one more adventure to come round Selsey Bill and back to Shoreham, weather gods permitting, and then the pleasure of being able to work on the boat ashore not far from home. One day we will get further afield but under the circumstances and with every other type of holiday impossible the boat has really saved us from misery.
 
Missed it. New prop, zero miles, unopened tide tables, and enough mussels to feed everyone in the marina for a month :(
 
Gwylan said:
Really glad some people have been having fun. Sad for those people that life incidents have restricted their season.

Well, after nearly 15 years we parted with Gwylan. That resulted in a gentle sail to Cardiff with the new owner. Fitted in that relaxed gap we enjoyed.
One of the best trips I have had. And a nice way to say goodbye.

Now stir crazy and wonder what I was thinking of selling the boat.

Winter project to build a nesting boat. SWMBO believes it is to go exploring creeks and so on. I think it looks like a tender. Just not sure what to.

Anyway, it should fit on the camper van that replaced Gwylan
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I was thinking of building a nesting boat as a winter project....then realised I didn't actually need one and would only be doing it to keep me out of trouble through the winter. Which one are you thinking of?
 
Against very low expectations, with a shielding GF and a very late launch (8th June) I've actually done more miles than last season. I tamed the new 87sq m Genneker Singlehanded, did a couple of singlehanded channel crossings and all with considerably less engine hours than last year ;-) The weather has been fantastic
 
Been a fab year for gardening and fruit?
Boat got lovingly polished and cleaned inside , way back in early March, suncovers rigged on the hatches in expectation of a scorchio summer and that was it?!
Sailingwise, I relaunched a small Edwardian-ish model yachthull that I had put a rig back on waaay back and last test sailed on a gravel pit in er 1984!
Planning on some gently daft pond sailing through the winter .
We are lucky enough to still have a yachting pond quite near us that has not been filled in or drained or reinvented as something or other ..
 
Couldn't get the fitting out finished because of lockdown so eventually launched in early June. Limited time available for sailing due to my wife's commitments to her elderly parents. Decided against sailing to France as we were still nervous about shops and restaurants. So we've anchored in Poole Harbour a lot and various spots around The Solent and Chichester Harbour. One 9-day trip to Dartmouth was great especially the two days of glorious northerly winds to get us down there. Hoping for a couple more local overnight trips before hauling out at the end of the month. I expect we'll log about 700 miles where normally we would expect 1000 to 1500 miles.
 
All in all 2020 hasn't been a bad year for me/us.
- Sold a boat in January
- Concluded the purchase of a 'new to me' boat in May
- Sailed said boat from Holland to Brittany. Only one minor mishap along the way.
- Had a good time sailing in local waters really getting to know my boat
- Really starting to enjoy singlehanded sailing

Think I will keep the boat afloat this Winter and only haul out a week or so in April/May.
 
Crane in day was postponed until late June, intended to keep the boat in the Clyde for a change but then mid July attempted to get her round to her berth at Crinan but only got as far as Campbeltown, we had a hairy trip round the Mull in 2019 with easterly williways off the shore flattening us every ten minutes so with similar strong easterlies, my instructions were clear, back up Kilbrannan Sound, a few day sails in Loch Fyne, then through the canal to our berth at Crinan with the visiting grandkids. Out in that glorious hot sunny spell in mid August exploring the Sound of Arisaig Loch nan Uamh, Loch Ailort and Loch Moidart, only moving a few miles and anchoring all the time, lots of sunshine with light winds giving an opportunity to explore some new anchorages with help from Antares charts and our Spade. Cracking fetch back to Ardnamurchan from Moidart, our best sail of the summer by far. The first year for a long time that we have not been to Skye, Gairloch or Torridon but time to break what was becoming a habit.
Now back in Ardrishaig basin planning to lift out next Saturday.
Only three yachts in our yard launched this year but we are really glad we did, putting supplies on board and going off in the sunshine is a great relief from the tedium of lockdown, we avoided the islands but did a lot of walking in fairly remote places, discovered the up and down cliffside ghillies path from the castle to Kinlochmoidart, impressed and puzzled why we had never found it before.
 
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