Category: Solent 2012
-
Sun 29th July – Cowes to Southampton Town Quay
With Heidi’s Mum and Dad visiting us in Cowes, we used the opportunity to do a spot of sightseeing by land, the highlight of which included the IOW Steam Railway and a couple of hours on the beach at Ryde. After 3 nights in Cowes, it was time to give Peyto a spot of exercise…
-
Thursday 26th July – Keyhaven to Cowes
We woke to find the world had changed – low water had revealed all the hidden shingle banks and channels. Still bleary eyed, I looked out of the starboard window to see our neighbour some way away, with an empty buoy in front of him, and then looking out of the port window, I could…
-
Wednesday 25th July – Yarmouth to Keyhaven
As tempting as it was to stay basking in the sunshine and facilities of Yarmouth, we decided to push on and make tracks Keyhaven. With no wind and foul tide all day, it was a perfect opportunity to double-check the engine issue was finally sorted. We arrived at Keyhaven around 2 hours after low water,…
-
Tuesday 24th July – Yarmouth
With a lack of wind, the scorching sun enticing us to stay and the crew unwilling to test my fix of the engine so soon, we decided to stay a further night in Yarmouth. Thankfully, the lovely couple on the boat inside of us also decided it was too good to leave also, so no…
-
Monday 23rd July – Newtown River to Yarmouth
After 40 hours of being very frugal with the leccy (apart from the fridge), we woke up to find our house batteries at 10.4 volts. The boys were most amused to find the TV would show pictures but no sound. So we fired up the engine for an hour to heat the water and prop…
-
Sun 22nd July – Newtown River
We had originally planned to drift up towards Cowes on the tide and see the Clipper yachts returning from their year long circumnavigation of the globe, led in by Sir Robin Knox-Johnson in his yacht, Suhali, and then float back down to Newtown for a bar-b-que on the beach. However, the boys wanted to skip…
-
Saturday 21st July – Gosport to Newtown River
Our holiday actually started on Friday, but having not been on board for a couple of months due to an endless stream of family birthdays, we managed to fill a day and a half bombing around shopping for provisions, spares, doing odd maintenance jobs and collecting our Area 15 clothing! So it was a great…