While most sensible people tucked themselves up for inside to let a weekend of highly changeable weather pass them by in the warm and dry, we instead decided to go for a highly sociable…if very wet at times…jaunt from Hamble to Yarmouth. The weekend started on Friday evening with some very moody and still evening …
This weekend we’ve been enjoying WeatherWitch’s happy place. She loves flat seas and a good F4 on the beam (or broad reach with the asymmetric spinnaker), which was exactly what we had for the entire weekend. Saturday we headed to Lymington, managing a lot fewer tacks than we had expected. We really felt the speed …
WeatherWitch has been in the water for 18 months as we’ve wanted to be able to take advantage of a great sailing day whenever in the year. This has resulted in many great days out on the water, but also has given the Hamble algae, shellfish and seaweed plenty of opportunity to give our copper …
Previously we chatted about removing our 2 big, rather crazed, Goiot hatches to get them refurbished after the success with our little hatches in the winter. The turn around times for getting the refurb done were much quicker in the summer (hence doing it now) so now we have the excitement of refitting our lovely, …
Today we had an exciting, and as it turned out very wet to begin with, day out watching the start of the Ocean Globe Race off Cowes. The Ocean Globe Race is being run in celebration of 50 years since the inaugural Whitbread Race (in 1973) and will be following the same route. It is …
Will we have enough wind? We had hoped to have a long spinnaker run all the way back across the Channel…and it looked hopeful for the first half hour or so. Unfortunately the wind direction then became unhelpful (to go with the poor visibility) and we ended up motoring most of the way. Mike felt …
A crossing of two halves Having wiggled our way out of the marina into a blissfully empty Portland harbour (funnily enough foiling windsurfs like 0400 even less than most yachts) we plotted our course down the edge of Portland and across the Chanel to Alderney. No dolphins appeared for this passage, which was rather a …
So keen to get out of the Solent that plenty of rather early mornings were involved…worth it for the sunrises!
