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Day Skipper course number 6 2013

Good sail past the Needles

Heading towards Alum Bay, Isle of Wight. 

Sailing back into the Solent, Hurst Castle and sunset.

Sailing into Lymington past the ferry.

Moored in Cowes Yacht haven. 

Always stop in Cowes, yachting capital of the world.

RNLI along side!

First day on a Day Skipper course doing a night passage from Hamble to Cowes the RNLI on training came along side on exercise. 

Just a few more pictures from last weekend sail.

From the left, Simon and Adam, first time with us, then Mick with his son Tom. Mick did his competent crew last spring, then his theory online with us, his day Skipper and come back for more!

Leaving Gunwarf Portsmouth Sunday morning.

Sailing back to Hamble Sunday

Engines fail on Southampton water!

Not our engine, the engines on a container ship, Basle Express.

Length 366 meters, 48 meters wide and draft of 13 meters heading to Hamburg.

Saw it slow down just before Fawley oil refinery so dropped anchor very quickly.

Within minutes all the tugs came out to help!

The ship did manage to re-start the engines and carried on with its voyage with the help of some tugs.

France invades UK

After centuries the French did manage to invade England, well we let them have a mock exercise landing in Gosport yesterday.

We sailed past as they were about to leave, loading the landing craft back onto the mother ship.

Saturday Night in Gunwarf, Portsmouth

Spinnaker Tower, towering above Quintessence's mast in Gunwharf Quay.

This was a social sailing weekend on our calendar. Lots of great bars, restaurants and shops perfect after a good days sailing and lunch in Cowes!

5th Day Skipper course 2013

Picture from the chart plotter of our track around the Solent. From Yarmouth to Chichester Harbour.

Total of 128 miles covered during the 5 days. Stopping at Hamble river, Yarmouth, Gosport and Cowes over night.

3 of the new day skippers sailing in Hayling Bay. Jamie, Alan and Larry.

Sailing into Chichester Harbour.

sunucu-spiker

 Harbour

Boss arrives back after a trip around the world

We were on a day skipper course moored in Haslar Marine, Gosport when Alex Thomson arrived back after finishing 3rd in the Vendee Globe.

Planning a night passage.

First Day Skippers in 2013

Michalis, John, Mark & Mat.

Very strong group who had all completed our online theory before. We started the first 3 days in stormy weather and completed last weekend in thick fog. But had very little rain, amazingly mild, didn't even use the central heating onboard.