Monday 9 May 2016

Oh dear doesn't time fly.  April passed a bit quick and here we are in May.  The exhibition went fine, but clashed with Anna's daughter's christening. Couldn't do both. Hope she understands.  Meantime we have been sailing at every opportunity.  We have visited Lymington for a weekend and Gosport for a weekend.  Finally made the bit decison that we should venture further afield and get out of the Solent, so last Monday we packed up the boat and off we went.  First stop was Yarmouth.  Following with an early start next morning.  Through Hurst narrows past Hurst Castle and then saw the Needles.  It's a bit difficult to take photos from a boat and at a distance, but hope the pictures don't appear too bad.
Having got through Hurst narrows, Hurst Castle felt awfully near.

Next viewing was the Needles.
We carried on into Poole harbour.  Had to pass chain ferry (much bigger than the Island one) then on into quite a packed waterway.  Went into Salterns Marina and stayed the night there.  Nothing going on, apart from huge, and I really mean huge, motorcruisers!  Next morning left about 1030 heading back to the Needles.  Saw Great |Harry Rocks.
Great Harry Rocks from quite a distance. 
Lovely sail from then on, although Bertie was pretty bored.
Bored Bertie

Similar to another photo done earlier - subject never changes!

Here we are sailing along
Took a photo of Needles from the other tack this side!
Now it's on our right side going back into the Solent.
We went back into Yarmouth, but left very early next morning to get to Gosport on Thursday as I had a meeting with excolleagues on Friday.  Left Gosport on Saturday morning, along with what felt like 10000 other boats!  Pretty hairy stuff as entrance to Portsmouth is a bit narrow.  Then we went to Buckler's Hard (Beaulieu), to finally meet up with Dick and Judith.  Tide against us getting into Beaulieu river and it was nearly 4 miles to get to the Marina.  However, all was well meeting them.  Left Sunday morning and back to our mooring.

Boat is good and we are now considering where to go next as we have only two weeks left before we go back to France for the summer.

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