On the Thursday and Friday we stayed on the boat in the marina and did some work on a few things. This included fixing an external aerial to turn the laptop on board into a wireless hotspot. We also carried on reading through the RYA training books. This lead to realising that some of the…
We had a very short sail today. We had intended heading further out, but the wind dropped and so we went to the East Shambles Buoy and back.
A short sail from Portland along the coast to Anvil Point. We were going to anchor in Chapman’s Pool, but finding the water shallow and the anchor switch having broken we abandoned that idea. Dad and I repaired the anchor switch on the move and then anchored up in Mupe. We had tea there and…
A walk around Brownsea Island in the morning and then sail back to Portland. The sail back was into the wind in fairly rough seas and so we motor sailed the whole way. Part way back three dolphins joined us for a short period of time and played in the waves off the port side.
Sail along the coast to the Wych Channel in Poole harbour.