@pdcawley oh, cool! What were you sailing? Some sort of bilge keeler? Bridlington is quite shallow, isn’t it?
My boat currently lives in Portsmouth harbour. The Solent isn’t so bad. Watch the tides, especially around the Needles channel. Wind gets weird around Southampton water in a south westerly. Stay out of the shipping channels in the eastern Solent, and beware the ferries, because half of them are piloted by the marine equivalent of white van man.