Its a chilly October morning, and the last round in the Medway Cruising Club (MCC) Burton series. Its a five race series and we had done the first four with a ...
Sailing with the Foxwell Family
Some people like doing it, others not so much, but being able to sail a yacht on your own is an important skill to have. This is a short film that we shot at ...
As many of you may know Ian likes sailing on his own, so when he found out that our yacht club was running a couple of races this year just for single, and ...
Its an early start today to catch the tide that will sweep us out into the north sea so that we can cut around the Maplin sands and the Shoeburyness firing ...
We start today with Izzy finally catching a crab but the weather forecasts all predicted that our luck was about to run out and that tomorrow morning would be ...
So after pulling Ian up the mast to check on the jib halyard we set off for a pleasant sail further up the Crouch to Fambridge. It was a great journey and ...
So after a short, but great stop over in Brightlingsea we get up early (well early for us) and start heading south again. This time down to Burnham, one of our ...
Today, the friends that we had made in Tollesbury were planning a short hop along the coast to Brightlingsea.... and as we had never been before there before ...
No sailing this week I'm afraid. It is a family holiday after all and its not just about sailing is it Ian! Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/
So after the long, but fun, sail to Tollesbury marina we have a relaxing day in and around Tollesbury itself. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/
Family cruise day 1. So its the start of our 2016 summer cruise and we couldn't have asked for better conditions. The sun was shinning the tides we perfect and ...
Last year Junior week was extremely cold, extremely wet and extremely windy. This year it was very warm, very very dry and sunny but unfortunately not much in ...
When we arrived there wasn't any wind, like zero! But it filled in just enough for us all to get to the furthermost mark downwind and then half way back before ...
Its not all about boat maintenance and racing, the real reason to own a boat is the pleasure you can get from it, and sharing that time with friends. Music ...
From the moment the evenings are light enough up to the summer break some keen volunteers at Medway YC run a series of 9 races on a Wednesday night. We missed ...
Fun times aboard. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/
We intended to all go racing at the Medway Keel boat regatta this year but it turned out to be a bit to windy for filming, and much to windy for Izzy so Ian ...
Pretty much as the title suggests. SeaHorse came with a complete set of B&G instruments that included an excellent Zeus 2 chart plotter in the cockpit. ...
There are lots of different ways in which you can clean the fouling from your yacht, this is how we do it at Medway Yacht Club. Music from ...
As ever the weather wasn't playing ball but it wasn't that bad either so we continued our journey home, actually making good time in the end even without the ...
The wind was still stubbornly in the north east but it had at least reduced in strength so we headed off on the next part of the journey home. It was a boring ...
So with the wind refusing to budge from the north east we decide to keep Sea Horse in Newhaven marina fro another week and to justify the cost we go down and ...
So its day to of our journey, bringing Sea Horse back from the Solent to the river Medway. Today, because we didn't want another day like yesterday, and ...
So we all drive down to Lymington with our friend Tony on the Friday evening before the bank holiday weekend. Saturday morning we all get up early, Tony and ...