On Friday we were in Cobh (pronounce Cove) – the port of Cork, looking at “the statue of Annie Moore and her two brothers. Annie Moore became the first ever emigrant to be processed in Ellis Island in the United States when it officially opened on 1st January 1892.
Month: July 2015
Three images of a dockyard
Passing Cattewater Wharves, the tide hurrying me on . . .
An anchorage at Cawsand
There was no wind as I motored into the Sound on Wednesday morning.
A different solution – staying in the bunk
The bunks on Blue Mistress are narrow. Being a relatively small boat this is natural. The problem is, I am used to wider beds at home and tend to turn over expansively. In the boat, that would mean landing on the cabin sole.
A bird in a hurry
A chance photo . . .
“Figures that clothe facts are in fashion . . .”
In the Preface of the book I have just started to read*:
A morning at the races
We spent yesterday morning at the City of Exeter Regatta, a triumph of organisation and lycra.
A day-sail – 6 hours
I foolishly left the camera my smaller Lumix camera in Farnham at the weekend, so yesterday I took the heavier Nikon 3200 SLR instead. The problem is where to put it down in a hurry when I need to attend to the boat. It sits in one of the canvas line bags at a stretch otherwise in a bag hung just inside the companionway.
There were a number of people enjoying the water. It was one of those days when the wind was steady (F3), the sun shone, the sailing, as they say, was easy. I left the mooring about 1100 and was back at 1700. No pressure.
Beyond Steeple Point 