21 July 2018

A winter sail in a very light breeze

It is ages since Little Dragon has been sailing and I decided it was time. The two Johns were keen, the forecast was for a superb sunny winter day with 8-9 knots SW. Just right. It turned out to be a glorious day on the river - but not for sailing, the wind never came up above 1 - 2 knots. So we sailed ever so sedately with the tide down river and when the tide turned headed up river all the way to the bridge. We all look a bit glum in the photos, don't know why as we all had a good day.

John Hayes

John Woods and Ted

Me
 The Johns asked me to photograph the giant cranes (see below).  

Giant cranes at Harwood Engineering used to move spans of the new bridge onto barges

The new Harwood bridge due to open late 2019

The old highway has become a local road so the old bridge will still open when needed.