So, it’s just gone midnight on the 21st July 2010 and it’s official - the first Clipper 09-10 Round the World Yacht Race boats have this minute arrived back in their home marina, Royal Clarence in Gosport, Portsmouth Harbour, after spending 10 months at sea racing 35,000 with around 400 Joe Public crew members.
Wednesday had [...]
Just a quick post to say a big thank you to Jerry the Rigger for our lurvely new furling line.
We had a very fast sail over to the Folly at the end of May, with my friend Rad onboard. I met Rad on my inline skating instructors’ course and he has never been [...]
Whilst hosing our Colvic Victor 34 down after being caught out in a F7 the other week, we noticed that our bowsprit had clearly moved a few inches to port. Interesting!
We spent a day dismantling everything required to have a good look… the pulpit came off, genoa came down, forestay unattached, anchor roller platform off, [...]
Last week, my friend Kenny joined us aboard Yacht Milestone for two nights. We had a brilliant time, venturing out to Cowes and back, and managed to find ourselves caught out in an unforecasted F7, broke the davits and bent the bowsprit. At least, James and I loved it.
For the first time ever, [...]
Had an interesting sail back from Cowes to Gosport this morning.
Last night, today’s forecast was predicting F4-5 occ. 6. I checked again this morning before we set out and it had gone down to a F4-5 without the 6 - perfect! Exactly what Milestone likes to stonk along in.
Poked our nose out into a steady [...]
On Tuesday, we cast our lines off the pontoon and headed out of the marina. But then something happened that has never happened before since Milestone has been in our ownership: we turned right. Yes. That’s correct. We turned right, joined the small boat channel, and passed through the mouth of Portsmouth Harbour. Then it [...]