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Evelyn under sail
November 14, 2008 |
A few weeks back on a brilliant sunny weekend I took my boat out. We left our berth in Southampton bright and early on the Saturday morning and after swinging the compass to calibrate a new instrument I’d brought off ebay and fitted the night before we pottered up Southampton Water to the Solent. Just after entering the Solent a boat branded boatphotos.com motored alongside and the photographer on board took a couple of shots. I noted the name and we continued on. At around high tide we made our way into Wotton Creek which is not accessible at low tide and after a short pootle hooked onto a mooring bouy and cracked open a bottle of beer and poped the kettle on to make up some bombay bad boy pot noodles. About an hour later we slipped the bouy and made for Portsmouth. The evening meal was at a fab place I’ve used a few times called the Great wall of China. It’s a £15 quid a head eat all you can place. After eating all we could we wandered back to the boat for the next challenge….drink all you can! It’s a hard life but you know……
On the Sunday morning We left Portsmouth and played in the Solent for a few hours before making to Cowes for lunch. Then we sailed back to Southampton to put her back on her berth until next time.
When I got home I googled the boat photographers web site and there was the photo above. I paid the man his dues and three of four days later I got a couple of prints through the post which I then took to the framers in the village. The picture above is the finished article. All I’ve got to do now is negotiate with Mrs H as to which wall she’ll hang on. (The Photo, not Mrs H !)