Woke up to fairly persistent rain and drizzle with poor visibility so after taking advantage of a hot shower we went to The Lifeboat pub right next to the marina for bacon rolls and coffee. By midday the weather had improved and despite a bit of tide running through the marina we had no problems […]

Caught the flood tide towards Cowes and even managed to sail a little bit even though the wind was very light. We had been going to go to Shepards Marina, West Cowes but the marina staff were not very helpful on the radio and there didn’t seem to be any good berths available so we

A leisurely start after Anne had bought a Sunday paper and we set off just before midday to go the short distance across the Solent to Newtown Creek. There was hardly any wind so we motored the whole way with the last of the flood tide. At Newtown Creek there was a mooring buoy free

First thing Richard took part in the Lymington Parkrun. A really nice location in Woodside Park. Although he didn’t run that fast, after no training, he really enjoyed it. Then time for a big breakfast to undo all the benefit of running before shopping in town. Then time to relax before Lizzie kindly drove us

Hampered in sailing out of daylight hours by our lack of bow navigation lights we left Studland at first light to catch the favourable tide towards the Solent after a good night at anchor. Our decision to anchor close to the beach being a good one as the wind picked up from the northwest during