Posted at 10:20am on 20th July, 2010 • No comments yet
10th July 2010, my first organised 1 day RYA course for Solent Nautical College. We managed to pack out New Milton Pool for a Sea Survival course with 9 candidates, 1 instructor, the very experienced Richard Morley, and 2 very surprised lifeguards who, had never seen swimmers quite so well prepared, for a quick dip. I joined the [...]
Posted at 9:55am on 6th July, 2010 • No comments yet
I popped down to see Hamish and William, with their instructor Kenneth Waylan YMI on Gemini, the Bavaria 37 cruiser that we use for our 5 day courses. They had been sailing all over the Solent and with passages over to Poole they had logged some good miles by the Thursday morning of their course. [...]
Posted at 5:27pm on 24th June, 2010 • No comments yet
The summer social, was a great day on the water for all 8 boats. I had toiled away in the planning stage to try and set the stage for a fair fight between the boats. Their mission was to photograph as many of the navigation and racing marks on the list, as possible. The marks had been assigned points [...]
