Keith Irons's blog

Silver Tide (Keith Irons and Ron Gardner) and Greenwitch (Richard Keen and Sue Cossell) will be meandering along the French coast after the Calais Rally, stopping at Boulogne, Dieppe, Fecamp, Honfleur and Ouistreham, before travelling along the Orne Canal into the centre of Caen for a three-day stay during the 70^th anniversary of D-Day celebrations.

We will welcome any other boats who wish to join us for the whol

Our plan to sail south of the Isle of Wight from Portsmouth to Yarmouth over the late May bank holiday was frustrated again by weather- as have most of the LSC's late May events over the last five years. But this time the weather was really awful. I left my berth on the Beaulieu River at noon on Saturday on Silver Tide with Richard Taylor and Patrick MacCulloch as crew. We enjoyed a fast albeit blustery sail with a SW force 6 on the quarter and covered the 12 miles to Portsmouth in under two hours.