Probably the one thing I did worst on on my day skippers course was sailing onto a mooring buoy.Here you see the results of my first attempt at this in Arctic Rose, that green buoy you can see off my port bow was the objective, and this was as good as …
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Lusty in my way
Sunday’s weather was so much better than Saturday’s, a bit like chalk and cheese really.Patch and I took Arctic Rose out for a little practice with setting sails and general manoeuvring, seeing as we could.Sailing along gawping at the spectacle that wa…
Too windy for me
The wind on both Friday and Saturday this last weekend was unrelenting.This was me on Saturday, left staring wistfully under the Itchen bridge, while the wind raged on.With it being far too windy for me to even consider venturing out of the marina, I s…
Storm damage
The big storms and winds last week took their toll on a few boats at our marina.Arctic Rose and the boats on either side of her took some rubbing damage due to the high winds we had. Apparently the wind swept right up the Itchen, and straight at our bo…
I didn’t mean to but… 2012-06-11 05:57:00
Huge grins from Mike, on the left, and Glen, on the helm, as we cruise down the Medina River, through Cowes on the Isle of Wight, in Arctic Rose.These are not made up smiles for the camera, but the genuine article as we all really enjoyed what was a ch…
The man
One person who looms large in this phase of my boating journey is Tom CunliffeThe TV series, boatyard, he did on other peoples work restoring boats was of great interest to me while I was working on Lady Jane, which is where I first heard of him.As I b…
I didn’t mean to but… 2012-06-06 01:52:00
Our destination for the jubilee weekend was originally Yarmouth.Unfortunately, the combination of wind and choppy waves in the Solent was making for an uncomfortable passage, so we ducked into Beaulieu for the weekend instead.The harbourmaster st…
I didn’t mean to but… 2012-06-01 02:42:00
On the subject of other boats, here is one that I’m not sure if I like it or not.It is a lovely sleek shape, built in carbon fibre, and I presume has the engine the hull seems to promise, so would likely fly over the water.I note that even the points w…
A boat
We saw this boat at Lymington. It’s not something I’d buy.
Its a hard life…
This millionaires lifestyle is hard, but someone has to do it!Here Andy, Patch and I watch the sunset over Lymington, while sitting out on Arctic Rose’s back deck enjoying the lovely warm weather and a glass or two of bubbly.We will definitely com…
