Every picture on this website, with no exception, is taken from one place - our Dartmouth office garden
THE VIEW FROM THE DARTMOUTH OFFICE
APRIL 2025 TVFTDO
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02-04-2025 - 07:06:48
Cruise ship Iona (345m long) is on its way from Southampton to Zeebrugge. Via the end of the river Dart. Did they lose their charts?
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P&O Cruise ship Iona passes river Dart
Cruise ship Iona (345m long) is on its way from Southampton to Zeebrugge. Via the end of the river Dart. Did they lose their charts?
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P&O Cruise ship Iona passes river Dart

02-04-2025 - 07:07:07
P&O cruise ship Iona is on a short cruise from Southampton to Zeebrugge. I know, did someone hold the map upside down ?
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P&O Cruise ship Iona passes river Dart
P&O cruise ship Iona is on a short cruise from Southampton to Zeebrugge. I know, did someone hold the map upside down ?
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P&O Cruise ship Iona passes river Dart

02-04-2025 - 09:58:06
At speed, passing us at TVFTDO, the Dart crew would end up on duty for many hours.
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Dart RNLI respond to EPIRB alert
At speed, passing us at TVFTDO, the Dart crew would end up on duty for many hours.
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Dart RNLI respond to EPIRB alert

03-04-2025 - 13:27:16
The valley of the river Dart is still construction Central. On a slightly smaller scale than Noss on Dart, this wall has been built above Bridge Road.
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Stone walled in Kingsqwear
The valley of the river Dart is still construction Central. On a slightly smaller scale than Noss on Dart, this wall has been built above Bridge Road.
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Stone walled in Kingsqwear

03-04-2025 - 12:42:22
Meanwhile the new RNLI boathouse is awaiting the roofers. Many will know that feeling.
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Dart RNLI new boathouse.
Meanwhile the new RNLI boathouse is awaiting the roofers. Many will know that feeling.
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Dart RNLI new boathouse.

04-04-2025 - 12:48:54
Found at last. The missing link. SD Navigator comes in to maintain some of the Navy's buoys and moorings. But it also spent some time in the centre of the river. And fished out this huge chain.
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Workboat SD Navigator in Dartmouth.
Found at last. The missing link. SD Navigator comes in to maintain some of the Navy's buoys and moorings. But it also spent some time in the centre of the river. And fished out this huge chain.
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Workboat SD Navigator in Dartmouth.

04-04-2025 - 13:15:06
Lots of RNLI activity this week. Dart RNLI Atlantic class was out twice hunting an EPIRB (an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) which had been set off. On Wednesday they joined Torbay Lifeboat plus a Coastguard helicopter on a sustained search out at sea. Then two days later another alert had the crew searching from river mouth to Dittisham. Above shows two of the support crew racing from the RNLI boathouse to the vessel for launch.
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Dart RNLI respond to an EPIRB
Lots of RNLI activity this week. Dart RNLI Atlantic class was out twice hunting an EPIRB (an Emergency Position Indicating Radio Beacon) which had been set off. On Wednesday they joined Torbay Lifeboat plus a Coastguard helicopter on a sustained search out at sea. Then two days later another alert had the crew searching from river mouth to Dittisham. Above shows two of the support crew racing from the RNLI boathouse to the vessel for launch.
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Dart RNLI respond to an EPIRB

04-04-2025 - 13:26:32
Friday's search took the crew all over the river.
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Dart RNLI respond to an EPIRB
Friday's search took the crew all over the river.
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Dart RNLI respond to an EPIRB

04-04-2025 - 14:23:53
A false alarm. So thoughts in the cockpit turn to.....lunch.
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Torbay RNLI respond to an EPIRB
A false alarm. So thoughts in the cockpit turn to.....lunch.
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Torbay RNLI respond to an EPIRB

04-04-2025 - 14:30:08
A quick u-turn and soon they're moored up on the town jetty.
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Torbay RNLI respond to an EPIRB
A quick u-turn and soon they're moored up on the town jetty.
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Torbay RNLI respond to an EPIRB

04-04-2025 - 14:45:49
And as they pass TVFTDO, it all becomes clear. On Sunday the Salcombe RNLI crew stocked up from a Dartmouth pasty shop.
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Torbay RNLI respond to an EPIRB
And as they pass TVFTDO, it all becomes clear. On Sunday the Salcombe RNLI crew stocked up from a Dartmouth pasty shop.
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Torbay RNLI respond to an EPIRB

04-04-2025 - 14:46:10
But today, for Torbay's RNLI nothing less than Rockfish fish and chips will do.
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Torbay RNLI respond to an EPIRB
But today, for Torbay's RNLI nothing less than Rockfish fish and chips will do.
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Torbay RNLI respond to an EPIRB

05-04-2025 - 09:46:24
Count 'em. Four engines. Three seats.
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Overpowered craft in Kingswear
Count 'em. Four engines. Three seats.
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Overpowered craft in Kingswear

05-04-2025 - 10:32:03
A couple of glorious days of sun and no cloud. And, it should be added, no warmth.
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Kingswear general view
A couple of glorious days of sun and no cloud. And, it should be added, no warmth.
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Kingswear general view

05-04-2025 - 16:03:34
I've been testing a new lens witha view to purchase. A lot of people ask how far a telephoto lens can see. This far. In the afternoon.
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The moon close up. From Dartmouth.
I've been testing a new lens witha view to purchase. A lot of people ask how far a telephoto lens can see. This far. In the afternoon.
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The moon close up. From Dartmouth.

06-04-2025 - 08:33:53
No designated seal pontoon out yet, so the boys in blubber and their families have been settling in to the RDYC dinghy pontoon. As usual.
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Seals on RDYC pontoon
No designated seal pontoon out yet, so the boys in blubber and their families have been settling in to the RDYC dinghy pontoon. As usual.
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Seals on RDYC pontoon