Paul Nash

Helping Flexisail with their Try A Boat at the boat show, very little wind so didn’t cover much ground

Set off from Newtown around 9am to catch the tide back to Gosport, 8-10knts of wind forecast but had much more by the time got to Cowes so put a reef in, good sail back

Set off from Gosport at 16:00 heading for Yarmouth, started to lose the light so ducked into Newtown Creek for the night

Light SW broad reach down to Totland Bay where we anchored for lunch, tacked back up the Solent once the wind filled in, back in Hamble by 18:00

RTIR started with 22-23knts of wind increased to a steady 37knts gusting 42knts at Hurst with wind over tide our skipper Matt called it, turned round and headed back to Hamble with nothing broken and all crew safe and sound

Hamble to Wootton creek where we did some creek crawling up to the bridge, lunch on the Royal Victoria Yacht Club pontoon before sailing back close hauled to Hamble

6-7 knots wind Clear Sky 7 people on board