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4th Aug - Day 1 - Getting
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| Lots of Naval activity |
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On our way up to Port Solent
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| The first of many markers and buoys I spotted - Port Hand Marker |
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| Starboard Hand Marker |
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| West Cardinal - marks the safe passage to the West of the marker - danger behind |
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| Similarly a South Cardinal Marker - safe to keep South |
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| Numbers marked on charts - this one is also lit for night navigation |
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| HMS Ark Royal |
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| Portsmouth's Spinnaker Tower |
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| Haslar Marina, Gosport |
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| You can tell it was Cowes Week |
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| Pilot barge and ... |
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| ... hovercraft - all with different navigation identification lights |
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| First of the three Napolleonic Forts |
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| The red port markers indicate the Small Boat Channel - keep to Port on way in and way out and stay out of the way of the big boys! |
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| QHM - Queen's Harbour Master |
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| 6th Aug - River Hamble |
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| Whatever it was was jolly tasty - as was the Hide Tide from Morrisons |
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| 7th Aug |
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| Tower at Fawley Oil Refinery - Southampton to the right |
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| How to go dinghy sailing when there's no wind |
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| Entrance to the River Hamble |
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| Slip cleaning at low water |
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| You can just about see the segment light on the right hand side of the pub |
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| Car transporter - can't half motor! |
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| Look into Cowes - quite busy |
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| Our French friend at anchor |
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| Another Bavaria 38 like ours - could be 'Maggie' |
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| ... and another one! |
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| This is the car transporter again - lots of five blasts to tell the race skippers that he's coming through and he doesn't know what their intentions are - also had a police escort with sirens! |
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| She's actually in a designated deep water turning area |
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| There she goes - round the Eastern side of the Isle of Wight |
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| About to start the race |
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| Spinnakers up in another race, towards the Needles |
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| South Cardinal at the entrance to the Beaulieu river - stay clear of the sand bank to the north of it. |
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| We have to get past the sand bank using the safer channel between the red and green markers |
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| White boathouse, lighthouse and red house are landmarks |
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| The ferry also has to hug the coast to use the channel |
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| Bottom of some clouds ... |
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| ... lower middle ... |
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| ... higher ... |
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| ... top |
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| Some green-painted withies |
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| Catherine successfully practicing lassoing a mooring buoy |
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| Meal moored on the Beaulieu |
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| Instructor Keith and Catherine |
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| Rob and Jamie |
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| Paul and me |
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| I was all right! |
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| Then night trip back to Gosport and a visit to the Mary Mouse
2 floating restaurant and bar - Excellent Pims - made with ginger beer, Pinot Grigio, fruit and lemonade |
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| 8th Aug |
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| Day in classroom so no interesting photos - food was good again |
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| Lucky to be invited onto this 82ft gorgeous Swan to look around - fantastic. |
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| Back in the Mary Mouse - ended the evening revising lights in the harbour - two vertical reds on harbour and a vessel constrained by her depth |
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