Our voyage so far

If you look to the right of the map about a third of the way down you'll see Southhampton.  Friday we sailed down the channel to the Solent and then went left |(your right just off the map) into Portsmouth Harbor home of Her Majesty's Naval Base.  The base is the oldest surviving dry dock in the world and the oldest in the Royal Navy originally by Henry VII in 1495.  The base is also home to the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard, where we saw HMS Victory and HMS Warrior.  The HMS Warrior was the first ocean going Ironclad and was completed in 1861.  We sailed back to Southhampton Saturday and then back down the channel and docked a Marina in Cowes on the northern tip of Isle of Wight.  This morning we motored against the tide down to the needles and then to open water.  Winds were coming from the S-SW most of the day but the the tide turned with us and we made it to the little shoe of land you can see south of Weymouth and docked in Portsmouth Habor.  Tomorrow we will sail over one hundred nautical miles which requires an overnight passage all the way to Falmouth which is on the most western area of the south coast of England. 



Saturday