{"id":511,"date":"2018-09-26T19:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/?p=511"},"modified":"2018-09-26T19:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-09-26T19:07:42","slug":"poole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/poole\/","title":{"rendered":"Poole"},"content":{"rendered":"

September 26th<\/sup> 2018<\/p>\n

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This is Poole Harbour tonight. It\u2019s going to be hard to leave tomorrow.<\/p>\n

I can\u2019t believe I will have been here ten days \u2013 the first week because of gales and the rest because of calms. I\u2019ve been ashore once for four hours to fill up with water, do some shopping and get the washing done.<\/p>\n

\u2026 and I\u2019ve loved every minute of it.<\/p>\n

I once read that Poole is the second-largest natural harbour in the world (Sydney being the largest). This means that you can cruise around without going outside at all. At present, I am anchored off Goathorn Point in the South Deep \u2013 before that, I was in Blood Alley Lake which I chose over Pottery Pier or Shipstal Point.<\/p>\n

Of course, I know it all \u2013 or I used to. I kept my first boat here, a little 18ft Caprice in 1979 and then, in 1982, Largo<\/em> was on a mooring off Brownsea Island. I can\u2019t believe that I thought nothing of ferrying my two sons, then aged eight and ten, in an inflatable dinghy all the way across the ship channel to the Lilliput shore (nobody thought of wearing a lifejacket in those days).<\/p>\n

For the past 48 hours, I have done some reading and some maintenance \u2013 but also spent a lot of time just watching the harbour traffic \u2013 such as it: The wobbly paddle-boarders, the drifting dayboats with the helmsman\u2019s feet up on the gunwhale and there\u2019s a sightseeing boat which looks just like Brian the Snail from the Magic Roundabout.<\/p>\n

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Now a party from the house behind the \u201cKeep Off\u201d signs on the point has brought their gin and tonics down to their private jetty to enjoy the sunset. I don\u2019t blame them, I sat up on the stern seat and watched a pair of birds skimming the water as they headed home, their wings almost dipping into what didn\u2019t look like water at all but solid gold.<\/p>\n

Ah well, the wind should be returning tomorrow night \u2013 from the wrong direction, as it happens but I\u2019ve only got to get to the East Coast and at the beginning of the summer I had headwinds all the way from North East England to South West Scotland so I reckon I deserved a rest\u2026<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Tf-uzDM-300d<\/a><\/u><\/p>\n

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September 26th 2018 This is Poole Harbour tonight. It\u2019s going to be hard to leave tomorrow. I can\u2019t believe I will have been here ten days \u2013 the first week because of gales and the rest because of calms. I\u2019ve been ashore once for four hours to fill up with water, do some shopping and … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":515,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/racecoast.net\/omstest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}