Last weekend we finally got out for our first sail of the season, which feels crazily late for us. The northerly winds did try to kid us into thinking that it was still late February or early March – I was certainly wearing enough layers for it to have been! First stop: a “relaxed” downwind …
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 …
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 …
