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A GREAT SAIL from the Medway to Tollesbury in Sea Horse our Hanse 291
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 we had a really great sail north to Tollesbury, a unique little marina hidden away in the saltin...
Wilsonains sailing club ‘Junior week’ 2016 Izzys turn to go sailing with friends
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 the way of wind. But it didn't stop close to 50 cadets of mixed ages and abilities having a wond...
S2E16 Round the cans yacht racing. This weeks its the ladys race so Hannah gets to sail
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 the organisers sensibly decided to shorten. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/ For a ra...
S2E16 Friends come sailing with us on Sea Horse, our Hanse 291 yacht
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 http://www.purple-planet.com/
ROUND THE CANS YACHT RACING in our Hanse 291 at Medway YC. S2E15
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 the start of the series as Sea Horse was stuck on the south coast and then school, wind and weat...
S2E14 Family time. A night In Chatham marina and a gentle sail in our Hanse 291
Fun times aboard. Music from http://www.purple-planet.com/
S2E13 We enter the Medway keel boat Regatta 2016 and have a great time
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 raced her with Tony and a mutual friend Stewart. This is the story of what happened. Pictures co...
B&G Gofree WiFi-1. Installation into our Hanse 291 yacht. Same as Navico, Simrad, Lowrance)
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. Although this is great when sailing its less convenient if your down below. Installing the WiFi-...
HAULING OUT AND SCRUBBING OFF. How we clean the bottom paint / antifouling on our yacht
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 http://www.purple-planet.com/
S2E12 Dover to the River Medway. The final part of our journey to bring SeaHorse back home
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 wind! So after owning Sea Horse for a month we finally get to put her on her own mooring
S2E11 Newhaven to Dover, the third part of our journey back to the Medway
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 and mostly uneventful journey, largely under motor however the UK border forces did lay on some ...
S2E10 A weekend in Newhaven
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 spend the weekend aboard
S2E09 We leave Shoreham by Sea and make the small jump along the coast to Newhaven
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 because the weather was getting worse not better, we make the short hop along the coast to Newhaven, w...
S2E08 We leave Lymington and start the journey back to the Medway
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 Ian so that they can catch the best of the tides and begin the process of bringing SeaHorse, our ...