Category: South Coast of England
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A Little Walk from Chilham to Dover along the North Downs Way
28th – 30th March Category: Long Distance Walks Reading time: 10 minutes Although arranged in a bit of a hurry and with scant planning, this proved to be a very pleasant long distance walk. I like to plan to go on a long walk just before BST kicks in, everywhere is quiet and it is…
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The Dash from Lymington to London
Friday 6th September Reading Time: 5 Minutes I had enrolled to enter the St Katharine Docks Classic Boat Festival which is held over the weekend of 7th and 8th of September. What I hadn’t realised was that the last lock-in was on the Thursday high tide. With the wind forecast as easterly, we had task…
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Falmouth to Lymington
Reading Time: 8 minutes 16th August 2024 Malpas to Brixham Sumara had been left on a buoy near to Malpas while I returned to London for a month. The boat was well looked after by our friend Jo. When we arrived to retrieve Sumara, she managed to find us a space on the walk-ashore pontoon…
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Weymouth
Reading Time: 5 minutes 22nd June 2024 We arrived at Weymouth at 11:30 GMT and were allocated berth D4. Normally finding a berth requires a search of the pontoon ends with binoculars to spot the minute signs to denote “D pontoon” and then a guess to wonder whether you travel down the near side or…
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Beaulieu to Weymouth via Swanage
Reading time: Five miutes 16th June 2024 Beaulieu – and it certainly is a good place We decided to hide up the Beaulieu River for a few days while the strong westerly winds were blowing. It also happened to be The Round the Island Race at the weekend so we felt Cowes would be packed…
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Marinas and Harbours – Walton on the Naze to Portsmouth 2024
14th June 2024 Reading Time: 10 minutes As a reminder to myself, and maybe to help others cruising the South Coast of England, I thought I would review some of the marinas and harbours that we are stopping at. We are using a lot of marinas because we have a dog onboard and it simplifies…
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Three Forts Challenge Half Marathon
30th April 2023 Reading time: Two minutes It is called “The Tough One” but, to be really tough, you would need to enter the full marathon rather than the slightly wimpy half version that we opted for. It is without doubt a very hilly trail run but the hills are not quite as grueling as…
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Velsheda J Class Yacht K7 May 1987
I know the subtitle of this website is “Adventures of a small yacht” but I recently posted a picture on Instagram of the time when I chartered Velsheda for a weekend. I had a request to see more pictures – so here we go. I’m not too sure who actually took the photos but, as…
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South Downs Way
10th and 11th October 2015 Sumara is now ashore and work at Arthur Beale will soon be manic so this weekend was to be the last weekend break before Christmas. We choose the South Downs Way because it is within easy reach of London and seemed strange that we hadn’t walked any of it yet.…
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South West Coast Path – Walk from Weymouth to Worth Matravers
14th March 2015 Dorset Coast – South West Coast Path The much needed weekend break had arrived and we were on the 18:00 train to Weymouth. As John works with train sets we were treated to first class and the journey was very civilised. Selma greeted us at Weymouth and, despite our large snack en…