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Spent most of the day trying to paddle board. No more photographs!!! It was pretty hot and windless so perfect conditions. Then we packed the paddle board away and late afternoon left to anchor in Studland Bay. After nearly being run down by a manic powerboat we were soon safely anchored off the beach in […]

Had a good night at anchor in Portland and it was a nice morning as we waited for the tide to turn so we could head east. There was no wind so there was little activity on the water; racing postponed. We were just about ready to leave when the harbourmaster’s RIB pulled by and

Up at 05:00 BST to leave at 05:30. Happily what waves there were, were from the north so on our beam as we headed roughly east towards Portland Bill. Motor-sailed to start with as the wind was light and then it built to gust at 18 to 20 knots at its peak and we were

We had intended to sail or motor towards Lyme Regis but once at sea there was a horrible chop from the east and no wind. Harvard didn’t like this and was crashing about and going really slowly. Horrible memories of trying to sail from Dartmouth to Southampton in the same conditions after we had bought

David and Debbie’s boat, Lacerta, a Starlight 35, has a problem with its steering so we all went out for a sail on Harvard around Torbay. There was not much wind but we did actually manage to sail and having Richard, a strong young man onboard, made everything much easier. So much so that we