All at Sea with Stargazer

I live by the sea, maybe live for the sea, on an island in the tidal River Medway. Just downstream of the historic Chatham Naval Dockyard - where Nelson's Victory was built. For me the sea is about freedom and exploration - both personal and geographical. Stargazer is a 31' Hallberg-Rassy sloop; and companion on my journey

Sunday, 21 April 2019

Easter Joy

The promise of the forecast is delivered. Stargazer leaves Ramsgate as the sunrise glints off the house windows and a north easterly for...

Saturday, 20 April 2019

Deja Vu

Ramsgate lounges indolently beneath the china blue sky of an Easter heatwave. Stargazer slipped free of her moorings on Thursday e...

Sunday, 31 March 2019

Muddy Waters

The flood begins to make on a dreamily still spring morning. A family of geese stir, as a tongue of water licks toward them across the s...

Saturday, 2 March 2019

Memory Lane

Today a crisp south westerly force 6 rattles the palm fronds on Poole Quay. Beyond the shelter of the sea wall, white horses cavor...

Saturday, 23 February 2019

Current Affairs

Down on the tow path, spring sunshine burns off the chill of an overnight fog. Ghost ships study their reflections in the still r...

Saturday, 16 February 2019

Valentine's Day

On a joyously sun filled Valentine's Day, I load a heavy wooden crate into the farm pick up. Four days earlier Stargazer was c...

Saturday, 22 September 2018

Weather Bound

For four days and nights the south wind howls and shrieks. Sometimes down to force 7, one night up to storm 10, mainly it's around...

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