Both wind and tide lined up for an early start. First light was 4:15, so we set our alarms for 3:30, enough time to make porridge and get ready before setting off. This was our earliest start yet and only Read more…
Once all the tourist from the day before had left we had the cove mostly to ourselves, with only 3 other boats anchored overnight. This didn’t last long, even with it being a Monday the beach started filling, and by Read more…
No wind again today, so rather than sit and wait we headed across the bay to explore. Leaving Portland we past the fleet of Wayfarers racing in their nationals, a competition which they’d been trying to hold all weekend. Durdles Read more…
Glorious sunshine, but no wind and the wrong tides. The tides past Portland Bill as some of the strongest in the UK and at 7knts we cannot go against them or launch a kite in them easily. We need to Read more…
We awoke to thick fog and no wind. We had to wait until 1pm for a favourable tide to go past Portland Bill and by 11am the fog have lifted. We headed out with little wind but a promising forecast Read more…
Bright (or at least for the first part) and early we headed down to Chesil Beach for Stew’s impromptu beach clean. It was great meeting Matt who had seen us on Facebook and joined us before his gym session, warming Read more…
After a quiet night on anchor, Joe and I got a lift to the beach early by Islay and we headed into Weymouth to find a marine engineers. We were in luck and a very nice guy gave us some Read more…
<should this go on 28th?> After a beautiful sunset we got treated to a harbour porpoise feeding near a neighbouring yacht. They need to eat 10% of their weight eat day and feed constantly , consuming around 3000 small fish Read more…
While doing the breakfast dishes I suddenly looked up to see a naked Stew jumping into the water. Apparently he’d dropped his sunglasses overboard, and didn’t want to get his wallet wet, so took his trousers off before jumping in! Read more…
No wind, no chores, just pure rest and relaxation. Think my knees needed it after yesterday, I felt them in the morning even with all the stretching. There’s no wind forecast until Tuesday, so will definitely be ready to go Read more…