Made a start to our summer holiday. Managed to have a nice evening sail to the bottom of the Beulieu River, where we are anchored behind Gull Island, a nesting ground for birds-who are incredibly noisy-hence being awake and writing this.
Our plan is to try and head to the West Country, but faced with light winds from that direction over the next couple of days that might prove difficult. A trip across the channel might be easier. However as I sit here the wind that had just died from the West has just filled in with some strength from the North East, not the forecast direction.
Forecasts are not proving to be too accurate at the moment anyhow, but fortunately it is more summery than some forecasts. The monthly outlook from the bbc site predicts continuing fine weather with high pressure dominating for much of the next couple of weeks, but an email I receive from a sailing forecaster with a home record says the let stream will kick in at the end of next week bringing up atlantic storms in quick succession, effectivly ending summer! So better make the most of this weekend!
Had also better mile the most of this find NE wind and the fair tide we now have to take up west.--
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Friday, 23 July 2010
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