It is April, and the beginning of the sailing season.
The ship was also used for training, and was sent out on trips every sailing season.
Repairs would take six months, and she returned for the 1953 sailing season.
The sailing season was therefore usually restricted from mid-spring to September.
They own a clubhouse and normally are open every Wednesday evening during the sailing season.
This seems to have been the most disastrous sailing season for years in the west of Scotland.
Agrippina should have come by the overland route, because the winter had already begun and the sailing season was over.
'We'll see familiar faces back before the sailing season's half done.'
It had only 300-500 permanent residents, but as an important commercial center, it saw many more during the sailing season in the summer.
An annual summary is also released shortly before the start of the sailing season.