Where is everyone?

[johnalison]

We came up the Wallet on Sunday with the flood tide to Pyefleet and hardly saw a soul. There was a small Haven racing fleet in the distance but other than a couple of boats going the other way round Colne Point we were completely alone, on a weekend at the end of June. Yesterday was much the same for our solitary trip to visit Bradwell. It looks as if people have given up sailing. True, it was a bit breezy, but nothing special, and the sort of day that would have seen crowds of sails in the Blackwater in days past.

 

[Capt Popeye]

We came up the Wallet on Sunday with the flood tide to Pyefleet and hardly saw a soul. There was a small Haven racing fleet in the distance but other than a couple of boats going the other way round Colne Point we were completely alone, on a weekend at the end of June. Yesterday was much the same for our solitary trip to visit Bradwell. It looks as if people have given up sailing. True, it was a bit breezy, but nothing special, and the sort of day that would have seen crowds of sails in the Blackwater in days past.

Ah just perhaps you did not get 'the word', eh ?

 

[Hydrozoan]

Don’t ask! I hope to get to the boat today after waiting for various matters associated with house refurbishment work, which the powers that be acceded to bringing forward from the autumn. I predict a week’s poor weather starting tomorrow, if that’s of any help to you.

 

[Champagne Murphy]

Well I was picking up mum from hospital after a shoulder replacement.
That’s my excuse and she’s sticking to it.

 

[UncleAlbert]

i was out on the Blackwater yesterday afternoon and had a spirited sail round Osea Island and saw about 4 boats, lovely it was too.

Unc

 

[Marmalade]

We may have been one of the boats you saw... cracking beat down the wallet on Saturday - overnight in Brightlingsea (curry in Kovalam) and a run back with the tide on Sunday afternoon. Great weekend.

 

[photodog]

It was surprisingly quiet this weekend.... I suspect it was down to it not being school holidays, or a long weekend, and the met office putting out a strong wind warning on their website... plus the forecast for rain..

None of which were actually an issue in reality, though it was a bit gusty.

 

[cueball]

Did anyone mention the World cup is on?

 

[Lodesman77]

Did anyone mention the World cup is on?

Not until next year...

https://www.rugbyworldcup.com/

 

[Daydream believer]

Victoria marina St Peter Port is only third full . Have never seen it so empty. Yet outside in the main harbour they are rafted up 2-3 deep and bobbing about in the swell like crazy.
most odd
perhaps they all have something against Bradwell boys!!!
Would explain the quiet Wallet

 

[johnalison]

Ah well. Perhaps there is some life around. I've arranged for a westerly tomorrow, and NE the following day for our friends to sail back with. I hadn't seen St Peter's on the wall for maybe 30yrs so walked there this pm. Rewarded with seeing one hare, a reed bunting and a pair of peregrines, which took my mind off my sore feet.

 

[UncleAlbert]

Well done you for walking from Bradwell Marina to St Peters on the wall, thats a fair old trot.

Unc

 

[johnalison]

Not much of a trot, more of a shuffle. There was no mobile signal in places, so I was careful not to stumble.

 

[FulmarJeddo]

We went into Ramsgate Saturday afternoon after getting back from a deserted Boulogne. Ramsgate was mobbed. I'm not sure where they had all come from, maybe the cause of elsewhere being deserted.

 

[PetiteFleur]

We were at Halfpenny Quay at Harwich on Sunday which I was expected to be rafted up but we got alongside on an inside berth fairly easily, plenty of crew to avoid damaging the motorboat we nearly hit... dRink and meal in the Alma and then back to the Deben. A good sail apart from when my Rotostay furler managed to unscrew itself and we had to tie it up - appears it's been furling in the wrong direction for the last few years - as I'd fitted new forestay over winter and serviced and greased the drum it unscrewed itself! Another job before the weekend.

 

[Baddox]

We were out on Sunday a little further north than the other posters on here. The 15 to 20 knot breeze ensured good progress, even when we wanted to drift slowly for an hour’s fishing while the skipper read her book. It was a lovely day to be out, the offshore wind kept the sea flat and it felt unusually warm.

 

[Guise]

For various reason we were sat on our berth in SYH over the weekend, very surprised to see hardly any boats going out.

Can we pre-order a warm Northerly F4 at the end of June for our trip down to the Medway?

 

[Gitane]

Sunday was Father’s Day. Kids are not into sailing, so we went to London instead else I would have been out on the water to make up the numbers.

 

[wilkinsonsails]

We too were in Pyfleet on Sunday eve .Saw you arrive in Shifta when you picked up the bouy ahead of us.
Commented how quiet it was for a June Sunday and Monday .
Saturday it was fairly busy off Osea and Marconi .Practised anchor dragging whilst kicking the anchor winch.
How does one deal with a Delta that persists in arriving at the bow roller upside down ��.
.For our trip back to the Swale .Not a single sail visible ,until off Whittaker when two North bound cats appeared .Then one more Carbon main off the N Kent coast .

 

[ex-Gladys]

For various reason we were sat on our berth in SYH over the weekend, very surprised to see hardly any boats going out.

Can we pre-order a warm Northerly F4 at the end of June for our trip down to the Medway?

A "warm northerly " is an oxymoron, surely!