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Up river to the Goat Walk 2012-04-28 A trip up river to the Goat Walk before the weekend gales came in
Tags: Goat Walk
Up river cruise to Goat Walk 2012-05-19 An up river dinghy cruise from SYC to the Goat Walk. Light winds on the way back. About 15 boats out.
Tags: Goat Walk
Monday evening sail 2012-07-30 A Monday evening sail to the Goat Walk - quite gusty.
Tags: Goat Walk
First dinghy cruise of 2013 2013-04-20 On safety boat duty for the first SYC dinghy cruise event of 2013. Lovely weather and a good wind but not much water on the neap tide. Upriver to the Goat Walk at Topsham.
Tags: Goat Walk
Super summer sail 2013-05-18 A lovely sail up to the Goat Walk at Topsham. We had planned to go as far as the motorway bridge but the wind didnt have the west in it that the forecast said it would. Met Malcolm and Graham at the Goat Walk. The max speed of 6.9 knots isnt bad given that there was no tide to speak of.
Tags: Goat Walk
First sail of the year 2014-03-09 A lovely breeze and some sun for the first dinghy sail of the year in the Wayfarer. Pottered round the club for a while to see if anything would break after the winter period without any sails. All fine - so headed up river. Bang! The port hand shroud parted company with the boat! A quick tack and then Liz repaired the problem (the circlip had come away from the pin holding the stay to the boat - luckily the pin was still hanging there). Lovely sail then back to the club.
Tags: Goat Walk
Evening up river dinghy cruise 2014-06-12 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 tide.
Tags: Goat Walk
Summer Sail 2016-07-30 Went up river to about the Goat Walk and then back again. Liz did some helming for about the 3rd time in the 10 years we've been sailing on the Exe. Then some on water reefing practice and then back to SYC for the "Commodore's BBQ".
Tags: Goat Walk
Up river sail 2016-10-22 First time out on the Wayfarer for quite some time. The wind didn't manage the promised F3 / F4 and we ran out of wind trying to get past Topsham. A seal popped its head out the water about 10 yards away from us and watched us sail by the Turf. Liz would have taken a photo but was too preoccupied trying to retrieve the Double Decker she'd dropped down the centre board casing. Pleasant sail/drift in the autumn sun.
Tags: Goat Walk
Up river cruise - safety boat duty 2021-09-04 Safety boat duty for a very enjoyable up river dinghy cruise from SYC. Thought there was a pretty good chance the wind would drop and we'd be towing lots of people home. The wind mostly held so so good day out!
Tags: Goat Walk
Topsham paddling 2022-07-21 A paddle up river from SYC to the Goat Walk at Topsham. No wind on the way up. A F3 sea breeze filled in about half way back necessitating a bit more paddling.
Tags: Goat Walk
Up river paddle 2023-01-30 A fine day if a little breezy. Small tide so fairly easy paddling - especially on the way back which was wind and tide assisted.
Tags: Goat Walk
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