Every sailor needs a decent meal every now and then! I had mine yesterday. After some boatmade applepancakes in the afternoon after some nice vegetable pasta for lunch I enjoyed my first self-caught fish in the early evening. Just gently fried with some olive oil and served with a drop of lemon, salt and pepper Read More
What much is there to write? Arrived in Lulworth Cove yesterday afternoon, spent a wonderful rest of the day here and have been enjoying a full day today with reading, fishing and relaxing. All blessed with wonderful weather. Hardly any internet, almost no phone coverage. Wonderful! It was also the White Witche’s first anchoring manoeuvre Read More
Just a few lines about todays activities. We’ve left Yarmouth at around 0830LT and headed south-westwards towards the westerly rocks of the Isle Of Wight. We have a beautiful view on the rocks and the lighthouse and since the weather is very calm and the visibility is strongly decreased by fog the only things we Read More
Silence! It is the silence after the storm that makes this sunday morning a most relaxing morning! In a little bit we’ll receive our sunday morning newspaper and prepare for a friend to visit us here in Lymington. We will be sailing around Lymington, up and down the coast a bit but return to Lymington Read More
Yesterday we finally left ugly Gosport Premier Marina (Portsmouth) and sailed along the north coast of the Isle of Wight to Lymington (NW of the Isle of Wight). The weather was fantastic and with one reef in the main sail we sailed with decent speed towards our destination. Lymington is a much nicer marina than Read More
It’s been a stormy day which we used for some work on the boat and for relaxation. We considered waves of 3 to 4 meters with winds up to force 8 as definitely too bumpy, so we stayed in our berth listening to the wind playing his stormy symphony. Unfortunately we have to stay a Read More
Today we sailed from Brighton to Portsmouth (Gosport Marina). Starting with a butterfly and the help of the engine we made some miles before the wind freshened up and we could finally continue without diesel horsepowers. We passed the Looe Channel in front of Selsey Bill and since we were sailing in calm weather passing Read More
Work days it was today and yesterday. We finally continued with some work that we had to do, but still we have not finished many things we have to finish. But as times goes by we will continue with the needed works. The White Witch will look bright and shiny once we’ve finished the deck cleaning Read More
Not much to write about our trip of today. We sailed the few miles from Newhaven to Brighton and enjoyed some strong winds of force 6 to 7 and eventually in gusts of force 8. While approaching the marina through the harbour entrance channel we had to turn back (bit tricky in a 10 meter wide Read More
Today we had it easy and just sailed a few miles from Eastbourne where we had stayed the night to Newhaven. It was just a trip of about 16 miles and we’re already docked in the – well, let’s say: interesting – marina. We will use the rest of the day to continue some works Read More