This one is very close to home. Cowes Lifeboat Crew and the RNLI have just launched an appeal to raise £1m to refurbish their new lifeboat station. They have recently purchased the former Customs House, close to the mouth of the River Medina and are looking to completely refurbish it in order to ensure it [...]
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Busy Weekend In The Solent
The nice weather and good tides brought out the paddlers this weekend with Lepe Beach being the favoured launch point. Having previously only met a couple other paddlers at the beach I was really suprised to pull in to the car park and find a whole row of cars with padded roof bars, j-bars and [...]
Lepe To Cowes
Arriving at Lepe Beach for 9am I found the winds light, sea state good and very little traffic in the Solent. My planned paddle up Beaulieu River was abandoned in favour of a paddle over to the Isle of Wight, specifically Cowes. As the main shipping channel runs between Calshot and Cowes this is a [...]
