Solent Sailing

Ron's friends Ian and Lyn invited us to go sailing with them on their yacht E'le May in mid September. The pressure was on to come up with some decent weather and to our considerable relief, the weather gods played along. We sailed from Hornet sailing club in Gosport on Saturday morning and had a wonderful trip up the Solent to Newtown Creek on the Isle of Wight where we dropped anchor and had lunch. After lunch, we headed off across the Solent to the Beaulieu river entrance and then up river to Buckler's Hard where we moored up for the night.

On Sunday morning we set off back down the Solent with a very brisk wind on the starboard quarter and enjoyed another wonderful sail back to Gosport. Anyone who sails in the Solent regularly will understand how great it was not to have to sail the whole time against the wind!!