Another of our friends from King George Sailing Club now lives on the Isle of Wight in St Helens so we met up with him for a coffee and a chat and caught up with all his news. He is a sailing instructor and will be heading up to Orkney for the Island Games in […]

Made a careful passage plan for Lymington to Bembridge on the Isle of Wight. This meant leaving Lymington at 12:00 BST, the latest time you can stay on your berth on the day of departure. Someone from the marina was on the pontoon just before but he could see were preparing to leave and he

Richard and Lizzie have their son William and his wife and children down from London for the bank holiday, so we agreed to meet up for tea later in the afternoon at the restaurant in the marina after they had set off home. We had the morning free so the first stop was the chandlers

Our friends Richard and Lizzie live in Lymington so we planned to visit them. We both sailed with Richard in our Laser dinghies at King George Sailing Club in London in the late 70s and early 80s and we have kept in touch ever since. Unfortunately Richard now has Alzheimers and Lizzie is finding it

Felt much more prepared and set off down Southampton Water with absolutely no wind. It carried on like this all the way to the Beaulieu River where we arrived on a rising tide and found a free visitor’s mooring buoy just off the Beaulieu River SC. At least we gave the engine a good run