One day it's blowing a gale, grey overcast and feeling like winter, there's flooding due the spring tide being pushed up by the wind reportedly as much as 3/4 of a meter above predicted HW and most probably the combined effect of the sun and moon alignment in the eclipse.
A couple of days later, the wind has dropped the sun has come out and it's feeling like Spring might actually have arrived.
The two neighboring sailing clubs seem from across the saltings. On the left Hurst Castle SC and on the right Keyhaven YC. Both are a great place to sail from.
Sunday morning was probably the aftermath of Kathleen but it was still pretty breezy.
The wind was blowing perpendicular across Southampton Water and even with the relatively short fetch it was kicking up white caps.
Combined with the spring tides the strong winds had pushed the high water height further which was flooding into the car park at Warsash.
Despite the conditions there were a couple of boats out, I only saw this making the approach and entry into the river making good speed with just two stay sails set.
Seen in the yacht basin at Courseulles in Normandy, Papageno looks like she might be a Dragon, but I couldn't get close enough to be sure.
Courseulles is a small, tidal port on the Normandy coast which is mainly gently sloping beaches, there's a long history of day boats sailing from the port dating back well before the war.
Interesting name, Papageno is half man and half bird, loves wine, women and music and is the secret star of Mozart's Magic Flute and also seems to mean bird catcher.
The Flugel, Greg's Memory sloop hauled out at the Pink Ferry marine railway
One of the benefits of a shoal draft centerboard is being able to access facilities which don't have the depth for deep draft boats.
Nice traditional interior.
What looks like an MFV, perhaps based on a Fife alongside the pier at Wicor in Portsmouth harbour, hopefully awaiting restoration.
The photo has a washed out colour which seems to suit the scene, i can't claim any intention behind that I just took a quick pic using my phone.
Itchen Ferry Freda has been featured previously here looking great in a brief spell of winter sunshine.
There is however some intrigue involving her history, according to local sources she was not originally called Freda, previous name unknown but still a working fishing boat, she was wrecked in the great storm which ravaged the UK in 1987.
At the time she broke her mooring and was washed ashore, suffering damage and so sold out of fishing use to a local yacht broker who effected repairs and put her to use as a leisure yacht.
It's an interesting chapter in a long history which has thankfully she survived and is still with us after all these years and looking good.
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