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A lovely down river cruise safety boat duty. A couple of potential problems so a couple of very short periods when we needed to go a little faster than usual to make sure we were back with the dinghies before they went r…

First time at Brean. The effect of the previous night's height of Storm Helena were plainly visible. A short walk to the end of Brean Down - up a series of very steep steps to get on to the top of the Down. The storm had…

First day of hols! Whiteley's off to new camp-site near Salcombe - remember for family happiness mobile signal not great for route finding! New camp-site with very friendly owners.Walked to Saw Mill Cove lots of dog swim…

Over the chain ferry at Sandbanks and on to Studland for a walk past Old Harry Rocks and up Ballard Down. Rain came in - as predicted - in the second half of the walk. Quite a breezy day with overfalls to the south of Ol…

<p>From Wooton Creek, past Cowes and Fawley and into the Beaulieu River.</p><p> We left Wooton Creek and sailed across the Solent to the Beaulieu River. We motored up the river past Bucklers Hard and towards the top of t…

You'd think after 5 weeks in Orkney and Shetland we'd have had enough "seal spotting" but a stop off at Newburgh Seal Beach proved otherwise. Hundreds of them hauled out on the beach for a rest at the entrance to the Riv…

Off the Lerwick to Aberdeen ferry at 07:00 and along to the river Dee to Potarch Bridge to meet one of Liz's childhood friends. Arrived a couple of hours early so went for a short stomp around the local woods. Met Claire…

Camper vanning in West Parley for a meet up with old school friends. Went for a walk down Church Lane past the Multiple Sclerosis day centre and then on to the River Stour. Lots of Whiteley family memories / connections.

Put the kayak in at Bantham back beach and then paddled up river to a few hundred yards past the bridge at Aveton Gifford. At AG pretty much at high tide (on a neap tide) - wouldn't want to miss the timings by more than…

<p>A short sail round from Bucklers Hard on the Beaulieu River to the Town Quay at Lymington.</p><p> We left the peace and tranquility of the Beaulieu River and after a short sail reached the yachting mega-centre that is…

Birthday treat at the River Exe Cafe

From the small Sunny Corner Quay on the edge of Truro round to the Tresillian River on the Fal Estuary. Not too far today as there was a keen wind to be paddled against on the way back down the Tresillian.

An upriver dinghy cruise to start the 2015 season of SYC organised dinghy cruises. Pleasant wind - maybe F3

A lovely sunny day. Wayfarer sail up river and then up river again. Winds got a bit light going up the Exe towards Topsham and the Clyst so just sailed round and round.

A paddle against the wind and the tide towards the Turf. I would claim we had a reason for such foolery! Much quicker on the way back. Scooby's first canoe session of 2014.

A trip up river to the Goat Walk before the weekend gales came in

Up river to the buoy 24 and back on a fine Spring day with about a F4 sea breeze

A quick evening sail as the winds dropped away on a Wednesday evening

An up river dinghy cruise from SYC to the Goat Walk. Light winds on the way back. About 15 boats out.

Some gusts but mostly lulls on short Wayfarer sail

Only the 2nd dinghy sail of the year. Up river as far as the Turf in a nice gentle breeze

A very pleasant up river sail as far as Topsham Sailing Club. Between F2 and F4 in the estuary but died away to very little when going up the estuary. With the tide having turned, we didn't get much furtehr than TSC.

A lovely evening's sail up to the Goat Walk at Topsham. Sun and a decent wind (which only died as the last couple of boats arrived back). We had a brief detour a little way down the Clyst taking advantage of the high tid…

Second sail of the season up the Exe as far as Topsham Quay (where the winds got a little too light and fickle to go much further). A high tide sail so straight over "Greenland" on the way up.

From Cockwood Harbour to SYC and then on to the Turf, Then back again via Bull Hill Bank so Scooby could have a bit of a run about.

Standing in for Paul K as "officer of the day" and safety boat driver for the Commodore's Cruise. Forecast was F4 gusting F5 but with the wind from the SW a sea breeze could have taken the gusts to F6.On the water by the…

"Officer of the day" for the Dawlish air show dinghy cruise. A good day out even though not everything went to plan. The thunder and lightening was a bit of a surprise and curtailed the "out to sea" bit of the dinghy cru…

An iffy weather forecast (F4 gusting F5 with occasional F6) didn't tie up with the conditions at the start time so we went out with one reef. In the end, it turned out to be a lovely sail.

An up river dinghy cruise. The weather forecast was about right with its F4 gusting F5. The "fleet" got spread out quite a bit and, as the weather wasn't great, we headed back to the club quite early. The camera was on…

"Officer Of The Day" for the SYC "mystery dinghy cruise". What the mystery was to be was, er, a mystery to us. So we decided that it would be cricket and drinkies on the Bull Sands in the middle of the Exe Estuary at lo…