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With SYC on Plymouth Sound out of Mount Batten Sailing Centre. A bit windy for Liz on the Saturday so we went out on the safety boat taking piccies. GPS still on when we landed and went to the cafe - whoops. Sunday was a…

Too windy for us to go out sailing as we havent been out for a couple of months. So ended up doing safety boat. Good fun - a little bouncy. Suspect the occasional max speed peaks are GPS data anomalies.

A paddle with Marija and Jeremy L up the Clyst as far as the Bridge Inn at Topsham. Quite neapy so not a lot of water at the mouth of the Clyst (even near the top of the tide). Wind was probably the F3 gusting F5 adverti…

A couple of boats were needed to sail backwards and forwards across the race finish line to allow the new race finish video system to be fine tuned. Only time I'll ever be first across the finish line in a dinghy race. W…

Assembling containers. Icy hail on the way back.

Safety boat crew for James B at SYC. After two weeks in Bangalore in 30 plus degrees of heat, a morning on the Exe Estuary just a few degrees above freezing was a shock to the system.

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.

A light wind sail from Brixham to SYC on the Exe Estuary. Light winds but that was better than the forecast of next to no winds.

A lovely morning / afternoon on the water doing safety boat duty for the Dart and Hurricane Open Meeting at SYC. Plenty of sun and wind.

So in the days racing, the race mark buoy wouldnt stand up straight due to the shallow water. So we removed the weights below the race mark buoy and shortened the lines. We then carefully re-attached the weights to the a…

Down to SYC for weather station fettling

Down to SYC to welcome Derek H back after his sail around Britain!

Down to SYC for some "bimbling and fettling" - in this case moving a Seafly to make space for the Wayfarer's new location.

To talk webcams, winches and weather stations

First down river dinghy cruise of the 2018 SYC programme. Next to no wind most of the time but a pleasant drift in bigish tides. Beach cafe toasties as good as usual.

A super sail out to the beach cafe, out to sea and back via the Warren. A bit of everything in the wind - well from F2 to F4 - and lots of sun. Ideal. GPS battery died on the way back.

An autumn sail down to the beach cafe. The sun put in an appearance and there was occasionally a bit of wind to use in the big springs tide

Safety boat at SYC on a pleasant autumn morning. Not a lot of wind so not much work for us on the safety boat (apart from trying to figure out how to make the race marks stand upright). Some GPS data anomalies... hence m…

Up to Topsham Sailing Club and back via Hannaford's Quay. Out into a weak breeze and then back into a strong breeze!

Lovely late October day - sunny and very little wind. Went for a paddle round the Pole Sands. On the sea side of the Pole Sands coming in to a beach with small breaking waves and rudder up, I ended up sideways on to a wa…

Out of the lee of the land, the wind was the predicted F4 gusting F6. Not really ideal of Liz!

Cockwood Harbour to the Turf Locks and back via SYC.

Cycle ride down to SYC for some boat fettling followed by a down river dinghy cruise

An SYC dinghy cruise out to sea that actually made it out to sea! It looked as though there would be no wind at all for quite a while but gentle F2 / F3 filled in for most of the time.

SYC's "Push The Boat Out" day to offer people a taster of dinghy sailing. A very successful day - about 70 people got to try sailing and the winds were an ideal F2 to F3. Liz got to try helming a Topper on dry land!

A very wet and bouncy safety boat duty in mid April. About a force 6 on the estuary with waves of about 1 metre. Meant there was a lot of water coming over the front of the rib. Just the thing to help clear out a cold..…

On a rib out to the Exe SWM to welcome Peter S home from his epic trip (through the French canals, around Corsica and other islands in the Med, through the Canal Du Midi and then back round the Britanny coast.

Too little wind to go sailing so Malcolm B and I headed down river in the Sea Eagle kayak

A bit curtailed as we could only really sail on one tack! The bench that the starboard genoa car was attached to pulled away from the thwart as the fibreglass had shattered around the bolt/wingnut. So we sailied around u…

A trip into town with Liz to pick up some cheap tat at Lidls and then stopped for a coffee at SYC where the weather was perfect for the Kathleen/Buxton Belle Trophy races. But that did mean we were cycling back into a st…