Squib Nationals - Monday 27 June

Forecast is OK for Monday and WSC have organised a RIB for me, so Monday it is.  Please email me with your sail number if you would like me to keep a look out for you.

Squib Nationals 26 Jun to 1 Jul

I am due to come to Weymouth for one day of the Squib Nationals.  I'll pick the day once there's a reasonable weather forecast for the week.  In the meantime, if you would like me to keep an eye out for your boat, please email me your sail number and tell me what sort of shots you prefer, eg close-up, full height etc.

Coast Path Week 1

First week of the Coast Path walk now done!   Budleigh Salterton to Salcombe over 5 days.  Many thanks to Roland for his company.  Very pleasant walk, strenuous in places.  Bird of the week has to be the Stonechat and flower either Campion or the Early Purple Orchid.  Plenty of flower pics in the photogallery but you try taking a convincing photo of a stonechat with a 24 mm lens!  Here's one I took earlier...

Coast Path Walk

Plans have firmed up, commitment has occurred and the start is one week away! Still struggling with a number of things, like how to keep the rucksack below 15 Kg.  We could have paid for one of those namby-pamby "we take your luggage on to your evening's destination" services, but the clue is in the words I used to describe it.  Let's see how I feel after a day lugging (15+?) kilos up and down hills...

2016 Challenge

A belated Happy New Year to all my readers (all 2 of you??).  This year's challenge is to walk the SW Coast Path from home (Budleigh Salterton) to Land's End.  Probably not all in one go :-)  Current plan is to walk with an old friend of mine.  More detail to follow when (a) plans firm up and (b) commitment occurs!

Comet Trio Nationals Exe SC 22 Aug 15

Plenty of sunshine today for Day 2 of the Trio nationals but sadly very little breeze and hardly any racing.  There's a selection of pictures on the Photo Galleries page.  Thanks to Steve for the ride in RIB "Scooby".  Just like the old days...

Sailing Again!

Went for a sail on the Exe in Nellie (Dorado 12) this morning.  Launched just after HW on quite a big tide which is (+) convenient as the water is right at the bottom of the slipway (-) slightly tricky as the breeze was blowing up the slipway (NW) so had to hoist sails when afloat standing in quite deep and, by then, fast flowing water.  But got off OK and had a pleasant sail in around 8-10 knots of breeze.