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Coffees and custard cakes at Lutzys on the Quay. Then a puncture at Topsham Ferry so late to the SYC AGM. Then building a new SYC <a href="http://www.starcrossyc.org.uk/weather-details/wind-at-syc" target="_blank">wind d…

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.

Safety boat at SYC. A cold march day - two degrees centrigrade. The windchill factor made it feel like minus four. GPS data anomalies account for the three or four short peaks in speed.

A cracking sail down to Babbacombe Cove in Derek H's Westerly Fulmar. Wind varied between about 10 and 20 knots. A few photos of Dick P's Cornish Crabber. Photos of Thalmia by Dick P.

Webcam fettling

First time down to Dawlish Warren in the new Sea Eagle kayak. Lovely day - there was plenty of mist that came and went but that didn't detract from it. Good test for the new kayak and I'm very pleased with it. Less plea…

Joined Derek H to take Thalmia up to Trouts to have her windicator seen to! Reproofed "oilies" seem to work OK.

Down to SYC to do a bit of Fulmar fetting - fitting a chunky swivel to the mooring chain.

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…

A lovely summer evenings sail. Just enough wind to go down estuary against the incoming tide.

Next to no wind and very little tide, so a quick down river paddle against the little incoming tide. A few photos of the boat that sank at the weekend and was raised yesterday - as well as a few of the posher yachts on t…

A down river sail in Malcolm B's RS Vision. Against the fairly weak tide and down to the floating cafe. Tried helming the Vision on the way back. After all these years, it's the first time I'd used a centre sheeted main…

First time out this year in the Sea Eagle 486 inflatable kayak. Wind was a bit stronger than we'd hoped (low end of a F4) so we changed out plans and paddled out against the wind and tide. Which meant an easy trip back w…

First time back on the bike after the two week summer holiday.

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.

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…

A basic cycle ride to the A379 and back again with a stop at the sailing club to watch the death and destruction. Some very big gusts of wind going through led to a few capsizes.

Up to the motorway bridge on a really, really hot day! With the tide and sea breeze on the way up. With the tide but against the sea breeze on the way back. That made it cooler but harder work. A little bouncy at the mou…

About 16 boats sailed down from SYC to the Pole Sands and Beach Cafe. Then a little way out to sea (up and down around the safe water mark). A little bouncy for about 100 yards in the swashway as the last of the ebbing t…

Cold March evening

As the wind was so light to start with, we sailed across to Lympstone for a chocolate and orange ice cream - but they were out of stock! A creamy strawberry was almost as nice. Then a few bits of decent wind as we sailed…

Down to SYC for a chat about GDPR and the SYC website

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..…

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.

Up the river Clyst for a couple of miles and then back via Topsham. There was still more navigable water to be explored on the Clyst but left that for next time.

After a couple of delayed attempts, this was the first sail of the year with Nigel H on his Dart 18. A sort of "shakedown sail" remembering how it all goes together. Not much wind and out against the tide to make sure so…