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Solent Mile Building
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Sailing from the Hamble river gives the Milebuilding Club easy access to the central Solent and endless opportunities for club members to develop their skills and awareness. Not every trip is listed here, we schedule sailing every week – all year round – we sail a lot!<\/p>\n

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Southampton – Lymington – Portland – Lymington – Southampton<\/strong><\/h4>\n

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Wind: light & variable
\nTides: Neaps
\nDistance covered: around 130 nm<\/p>\n

The milebuilding club’s first post-lockdown trip away. Multi-day trips away are considered extra-curricular – our regular thing is day sailing on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Milebuilding voyages like this give longer days, more time at the helm and a chance to experience real passage-making.<\/p>\n

Four days of light airs meant lots of motoring. The lack of breeze meant we didn’t do much real ‘sailing’, we did however swim (twice, Newtown Creek on the way out and Dancing Ledge on the way back), played with dolphins, saw sharks (small) and witnessed what we take to be the testing of underwater military drones.<\/p>\n

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