Had a nice sail from Cowes over to Southampton Water and most of the way to dockhead before motoring up to the club pontoon to find that a another club was visiting and space was limited. However, we managed to raft up to another yacht and whilst Anne went off to fetch the car Richard […]

We had studied the weather forecast and strong easterly winds were forecast for at least a week meaning that if we didn’t leave immediately we would be stuck for days making no further progress. On this basis we created a passage plan that meant leaving Brixham late afternoon and heading east overnight. We then had

This day was set aside to meet up with Anne’s brother Pete. Thursday is his day off from his work at the YMCA in Exeter but we didn’t expect him to about midday as he had other things to do in the morning. So after a bit of shopping we had a coffee in town

Brought up the anchor at around 08:00 BST along with a fair amount of weed and mud and set off for the open sea. Hoisted the mainsail in the harbour and motor sailed out past Prawle Point and found the tide still running strongly with us. Quickly round Start Point and we then unfurled the

We decided to paddle board around Harvard today and avoid the crowds. We had seen that the sailing school used our anchorage for training so we knew it was safe. Once the tide had finished ebbing we took turns to practice with the dinghy on standby as a rescue boat and it was good fun.