Heading out on a sunny Sunday we expected to have an easy morning of removing hatch lids (details in our next post). Instead, when we got to WeatherWitch the battery monitor wouldn’t turn on…a problem we’ve had before so at this point, maybe just a serious irritation? However, this was promptly followed by the discovery …
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!
We’ve been not the most regular users of the radar for the past year in part because we’ve (thankfully!) not been caught out in any fog. In the small amount of playing we’ve done over the past year with our radar we identified a few quirks…firstly that it didn’t have a heading sensor plugged in …
Frosty fingers and stunning sunsets! We really lucked out with the weather for our refit – 5 weeks in the marina and it didn’t rain on us while we were working! The clear skies also benefited us with a succession of amazing sunsets, as well as beautiful glittering frosts. While we enjoyed the frosts to …
This winter we’re tackling the, rather extensive, list of jobs and upgrades that we’ve been collecting throughout the first season of getting to know WeatherWitch. When we were initially planning this refit period we were wonderfully (over)enthusiastic about what we could achieve during a month’s refit around full time day jobs…being able to revise the …
