Solenteers BBQ Trip Priory Bay 8/9 July ; 'Smoke on the Water'!!!

[Pete7]

Message from the beach, they are breaking camp now. Been raining since 4am and still drizzling, wind South F4-5.

Pete

[Martin]

Both Antoinette and I had superb day.

Big thank you to Paul and Kathleen for providing Pimms and the reason to drink it.

Sorry if I was not on top form....I can confirm that it is a two day hangover!

Thank you to Richard for allowing me a few spins on his boat and to Paul who on the ringo was the funniest thing all day. Also well done to Howard for getting up on the wakeboard on about the 3rd or 4th attempt.

Until the next one I will bring 'Kismet' and lets hope that Anto's back continues to get better.

Good to meet all peeps; some old friends and a chance to make some new ones too.

M & A

[Nauti Buoy]

Huge thank you to Kathleen & Paul, for such a fun day and for all the grub & Blow your head off Pimms!!!

Well done to Howard who got up for the first time wakeboarding, huge grins of achievement and perservering all round on that one , plus hilarious grins of Paul surfing on my U Tube for almost 15 - 20 mins, difficult to drive a rib with tears of laughter streaming out of your face.

Cool gave of rounders if you did manage to get passed first base without being taken out by either Carly (git) or Jimbo!!!.

Wicked day all round.

[laser]

myself jimbo and nick (biggles) stayed the night on the beach!! Started raining about 11 pm last night, and jimbo had a new tent so thought he would try it out, but couldnt be bothered to put it up properly, so got very wet during the night. Was raining loads this morning, so decided to pack up and leave for home as everything was very wet, and very very sandy (beaches are not the easiest things to camp on!!). Got back to pompey after a fairly rough crossing about 10 this morning. Good time had by all tho. Shame about the rain tho

rich

[Mrs Jardon]

What a great day! Really enjoyed it.

big thanks to Kathleen for the yummy croissants with brie, the very drinkable pimms , strawberries and cream and birthday cake.

rounders was great fun. met lots of lovely people. look forward to meeting up
again in the future.

here are some of my pics:-

[Mrs Jardon]

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[Jimbo]

Originally Posted by laser

myself jimbo and nick (biggles) stayed the night on the beach!! Started raining about 11 pm last night, and jimbo had a new tent so thought he would try it out, but couldnt be bothered to put it up properly, so got very wet during the night. Was raining loads this morning, so decided to pack up and leave for home as everything was very wet, and very very sandy (beaches are not the easiest things to camp on!!). Got back to pompey after a fairly rough crossing about 10 this morning. Good time had by all tho. Shame about the rain tho

rich

I feel this must be rephrased. Jimbo had a brand new tent, never even taken out of the packaging, and Nick (Biggles) and Jimbo had a hard time putting it up last night - with Rich convincingly spouting that he knew exactly how to do it and it wouldn't be a problem. Nick and I spent ages putting the tent up (it was done properly!) however the bit Rich neglected to mention (but that was fitted on his own tent) was that we had omitted a 50cm square bit of tarp that formed a roof over the centre of the dome! Therefore, the dome did leak slightly...

Fantastic weekend, yesterday was absolutely beautiful and it was great to meet so many people. Weather this morning not so good, especially as I am now sitting at work waiting for my charter yachts to re-appear, but a great experience all round!

[Mrs Jardon]

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[Biggles]

Hi all,

Thanks for an interesting weekend. Kathleens Pimms was excellent. Even the salad flavoured pimms.
I must say that the night on the beach wasn't the best nights sleep I've had. I found it really annoying the fact that every 30 minutes when I woke up for one thing or another Jimbo appeared to be soundly asleep. And it wasn't until daybreak that I worked out why my feet were soaking, that missing cover for the roof, Doh. Next time we pick somewhere to camp over night we need some grass. Pegs just don't stay in sand, during the night the tent even took off on my side and I had to go and put some weight on it.
The night run up to Wooton Creek was fantastic. Really got the senses going and gave you a feeling of achievement.
The journey back today was a bit scary. Force 6 with what seemed like mighty big waves in my small Searider. I was able to do a steady 11 Knots weaving my way through the largest stuff. Instead of going straight for Chichester Harbour (My Landing point) I went to Langstone because it meant less of that scary sea and then went right round Hayling back to the entrance to Chichester to land. I'm really glad I didn't have to do that journey heading in to the wind.
Right then, whens the next trip ? Must go and refuel.

[Pete L]

Great to here that a good time was had by all. We were not able to join you yesterday due to family commitments so launched as planned from warsash at 9.00 this morning
crossing was interesting in the conditions but boat was performing well until we hit something in the water off Ryde. as a result we now have a damaged prop that will be off to steel developments for repair in the morning. Managed to limp into Cowes for a reviving caffeine injection then back to warsash
hopefully we will get the prop back fairly pronto as we are off to cornwall in 19 days for a fortnight in the Padstow area
hopefully we will make the next trip

Pete L

[slimtim]

Yup, great day. Good to meet the usuals plus some new faces! Sorry to those who I didn't get round to having a chat to...Carl, would love a ride in that boat of yours sometime

I didn't get out on my wakeboard, as I didn't have an experience driver with me, but my mate rich managed to get up after 5 or 6 pulls.

Oh, and thanks to Kathleen for the pimms with bananas and stinging nettles

Cheers

Tim

[Ian M]

Wonderful. Nice to meet some of you that have up to now just been names on my computer screen. What really impressed us was that everyone was unfailingly friendly and cheerful. I think it must be a RIB thing
Special thanks to Kathleen and Paul for the arrangements, the Pimms, and contributing to my weight problem
It was great for the whole family to be involved in a RIB event. Hope to meet up again soon, I'll try to be on time next time................
Finally, sorry for slowing you up Tim, circumstances, I'm afraid, beyond my control. Next weekend there will be no such problem
Now when's the next one

[slimtim]

Originally Posted by Ian M

Wonderful. Nice to meet some of you that have up to now just been names on my computer screen. What really impressed us was that everyone was unfailingly friendly and cheerful. I think it must be a RIB thing
Special thanks to Kathleen and Paul for the arrangements, the Pimms, and contributing to my weight problem
It was great for the whole family to be involved in a RIB event. Hope to meet up again soon, I'll try to be on time next time................
Finally, sorry for slowing you up Tim, circumstances, I'm afraid, beyond my control. Next weekend there will be no such problem
Now when's the next one

Ian, no problem at all. The speed going to priory was just about right really! I trust you got home ok, many thanks for the cruising company on the way up...thankfully my engine was fine! Perhaps see you next weekend for the round the island.

Oh, and apologies for being late when we met you in the morning !

[pop]

Sorry i missed you all, looks like it was a great day. hope rib is ready for next trip

[Carl]

tip top weekend

[The Jackeens]

We had a fab time too!!! What a top place! The wind favoured the location all weekend so it looked like a Caribbean Beach on Saturday (and Sunday also !)

Hey Slimtim you Yarmouth heathen!!! That was MINT in the Pimms!!! Not stinging nettles!!!

Noticed you parked that fancy new RIB of yours out in the shipping lane!!! And then waded in (head well above water) while everyone else needed snorkels!!!!

Pete & Vivienne had stormed the beaches when we arrived and the territory was well occupied (indeed fully furnished ) and fires lit!

Biggles took on a head sea from Hayling but arrived full of cheer! Students Jimbo, Laser & Lee were very helpful on the BBQ front and outdid the seagulls by quickly polishing off anything of a leftover nature!

Anto did excellent quality control of the Pimms!!! But each vintage was heartily consumed!! Carly's boat could be heard leaving its South Coast berth
and he insisted to Nicki he had to drive it slowly up and down the beach a few times allegedly to search for safe anchorage !

Sarah, Nautibuoy, Zippy,Gwen, Martin and others were wakeboarding stars with Sarah leading the way apparently! The Ringo looked liked loads of fun also!

Ian M and Ann- lovely to meet ye again! Martin Humphrey walked over with his labrador to chat to us. Thanks for the navigation help and hope your boat is back soon!

Whiteshoes, Elaine, Sophie & Saph got the rounders going and it was all very civilised until we stopped for 'tea'!!! Some blatant cheating ensued including rugby tackling which isn't in the rule book !!!

Ciara and Ethan were stars of the show and were extremely patient with all the adults all day! Lovely kids you have Chris and Debs (& thanks for help Debs!!!)

Despite eating lots of things that were no good for us at all there was still room for strawberries and cream after rounders, chocolate birthday cake and a drop of bubbly as the sun went down !

Yesterday morning we brought brekkie to the beach but the poor campers were rained out & gone! So we cleaned the beach of any leftovers and wandered over to the Bay Cafe for a top cuppa ! We also had a look round Seaview.

Heard from Sir Hal who had been camping out also and watched the Red Arrows over Pompey before lazing on the beach all day with leftovers and the papers

Thanks everyone for your fab company, food, games and fun! And for letting us know you arrived home safe also(& texts!)!!!

Top weekend! Birthday Boy had a ball ! Photos to follow!!!

K & P

[jackeen]

will download piccies later and only post the bad ones

Paul

[slimtim]

Originally Posted by The Jackeens

Hey Slimtim you Yarmouth heathen!!! That was MINT in the Pimms!!! Not stinging nettles!!!

Noticed you parked that fancy new RIB of yours out in the shipping lane!!! And then waded in (head well above water) while everyone else needed snorkels!!!!

One of the more intriguing moments of the day was watching whiteshoes play rounders and rugby whilst wearing a pair of chest waders?!!