Well the forecast did not look good with strong winds forecast with too much south in the wind to go across the channel so we decided to head back to our mooring at Marchwood YC and try again to actually leave the Solent when there is a better forecast. Had a fast sail with the […]

It really blew during the night so we were glad we had fitted the snubbers to the mooring lines. We had not intended to leave today and woke up to find a gale warning for Wight on the Navtex that fitted with the other forecasts we had. The rain was not scheduled to arrive until

It was really quiet up at the Folly, especially for a bank holiday weekend. Whether that was because of the weather forecast or generally less enthusiasm for sailing, who knows. Anyway we decided to press on even though strong west to south westerly winds forecast. In the river off Cowes we put two reefs in

Woke up to a bright day but a strong wind and more forecast. We didn’t want to stay another night at Marchwood so we decided to set sail anyway. We headed back up stream just to hoist the mainsail with two reefs and bore away down Southampton Water on a run and a very broad

Well what a difference a couple of weeks make as we have both recovered from our awful covid or flu bug. It was totally horrible. Anne’s hip is also much better so although the weather forecast is not great we decided we would set off on Harvard and see where we can sail to this