Hello - new to the forum - WB30

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Brian Kirkland
Username: Brian_kirkland

Registered: 08-2011
   
Posted on Saturday, August 27, 2011 - 12:11 pm:      
Hi, I just discovered the forum this week and already I have had great support (see 'Hull' threads).
Eventually found a photo of Stella:

Here she is in 2005 at Coleraine marina
Ready for loading stores for an overnight adventure for my son and his friend.
We anchored overnight in Dougan's Bay at the back of Portstewart Strand, half mile inside the barmouth.
I recall waking very early to find we had drifted some way into the dredged channel
- I'd laid too much scope for the anchor.
Thank goodness the regular scrap-metal coaster wasn't due! Lesson learned:
Tides!!! lay kedge anchor at stern, lie fore-aft well outside the channel!
Happy Winkle Brig grins to everyone!