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Daisy II: December 2013
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Friday, 27 December 2013. This year's sailing related present was a book about the 2008 voyage around Great Britain. By Mike Brooke in a Cape Cutter 19. I first learned of this trip in January 2008 at the London Boat Show. The stand for Honnor Marine featured the newly built boat Theo's Future. Subsequently, I followed Mike's blog as he completed the trip. Inspirational! A challenging future prospect for Daisy II. So, back to Daisy II. In the mean time, we've upgr...
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Daisy II: May 2014
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Friday, 30 May 2014. Ascension cruise, 27-30 May. Cruising upstream on the River Stour in light winds, Day 2. Fortunately, much of the very evident, rotten inland weather bypassed this part of the east coast! OK, so the title is a bit pretentious but I was at anchor in the Walton Backwaters, listening to an Ascension Day service broadcast on Radio 4. Just me, the boat, various seals and birds and the radio. What makes a picture? At anchor, Landermere Creek at the ...
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Daisy II: July 2014
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Friday, 25 July 2014. End of term mini-cruise: 23-24 July. Free at last.(from term time.). Such is the lot of a teacher, summer holidays lead to cruising opportunities the like of which other working-folk could possibly only dream. Reached up the Stour. One can be certain that jib and mizzen will do when speed tops out at 6.5kts in such conditions. Sunset over Holbrook School. Happy for anyone to let me know! Tall ship with copious rope! 201nm, top speed 6.5kts.
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Daisy II: Sunday Seahopper action at Rutland Water
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Sunday, 5 July 2015. Sunday Seahopper action at Rutland Water. Seahopper action or inaction: there being little wind, oars were often necessary. The news on the engine front is that there will probably be a new outboard by next weekend. Yesterday, I purchased a brand new Quicksilver petrol tank with matching fuel line and spent a good hour or so running the engine on the back of Daisy II. The slipway at the Watersports Centre, Whitwell Creek. Before that can happe...
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Daisy II: June 2015
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Sunday, 28 June 2015. Still, one piece of technology has been added to the boating gadgets: a GoPro, as can be seen from the above video. It's early days, as yet, but I'm looking forward to getting to know how to use it better! The second piece of technology to feature is rather less exciting. I've started a thread on the Drascombe Forum, the first post of which goes something like this:. It then spent a week on the mooring and the next time I tried to start it, i...
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Daisy II: March 2015
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Sunday, 22 March 2015. Fitting out, 2015. Things have been quiet on the blogging front but, behind the scenes, fitting out has been chugging along quite nicely. The first task was to strip back the mast to bare wood. I've also applied a coat of Sadolin to the gunwhales. I still need to do the inner facing side plus the transom. Whatever else gets done depends entirely on weather and time. The plan, as ever, is to be sailing from the beginning of April. She was bui...
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Daisy II: June 2014
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Saturday, 28 June 2014. Orwell in the rain. Slow moving thunderstorms dominating the day. And, by all accounts, things could have been worse.much worse. The drive back home along the A14 was manic and, on returning home, St Ives had developed multiple mini-floods. As it happens on today's short boat trip, rain was forecast and, whilst it didn't disappoint, I certainly had the best of the day. In a light F3 southerly breeze, Daisy II. Storms then saw me off the riv...
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Daisy II: August 2014
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Thursday, 28 August 2014. August 27-28: Stour and Walton Backwaters mini-cruise. Red track: 27th August; yellow track 28th August; 37.3nm with tide-assisted top speed 7.1kts. Cruising has taken something of a back seat recently while other matters have been attended to. In so doing, a greenhouse has been purchased on ebay, disassembled in Stevenage and reassembled at home with a new base - all for the cost of £51. New ensign pole working well! This will be the fin...
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Daisy II: September 2014
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Drascombe Coaster: Daisy II (home page). Saturday, 27 September 2014. Saturday began the final leg of the season, Daisy II. Returning to her mooring until late, late Autumn. Launching took place on the night tide. It was very dark with no help from the new moon, but sufficient light pollution from Harwich and Ipswich to make launching possible with a head torch! HW was at 2am and I managed to push her off the trailer at Kings Boatyard slip at around 1am, finally turning in at 1.30am. After a few experime...
