Stuart Fawkes

It was a very windy journey with 17-22kn E - ENE - unfortunately the wrong direction to make progress towards Itchenor. After lots of tacking with very little progress over 2 hours, we changed to motoring. Luckily the sun and blue sky appeared against the forecast. The waves made it a bumpy affair. First time on walk ashore pontoon (no water or electricity).

Nice easterly wind of 10-13 kn Tacking from lymington to Bembridge Sunny but quite cool in the wind, even with full winter clothing

SW 14-28kn Beautiful sunshine Little choppy with wind over tide Rafted along Osiris on yellow pontoon

7kts E, cloudy, cold, vis good Motored to Newtown, on buoy 1

It started with 18 kn of wind, we therefore put 2 reefs in, wind immediately dropped to 10kn, so we shook them out to sail back in light winds. The sun came out and it was warm, not like our lunch stop which felt rather cool with the clouds. We were wondering where the heat wave was hiding!

It started with nice wind of 15-18kn which allowed us to sail nicely against the tide. Then the wind dropped and we motored the last bit of

Brighter than expected, wind as forecasted, 13kn increasing to 19kn, gusts of 22kn, SSW