Sunday morning bright and. sunny, a brisk NE wind rattling the halyards. I must admit I was nervous about the next leg of the journey. Forecast was F4 all day but the direction meant a fair swell and waves would be making the journey uncomfortable. Then there’s all those sandbanks to worry about, I’m not making this sound glamorous am I!

We took a peek over the harbour wall, and it didn’t look bad, so decision made, off we set. We had a number of bailout options if we needed them.

We could see only one boat, about 2 miles away, and another following us, “Razzamataz”. So here we are the only two boats for 2 miles, he draws up 20 metres off the port side and signals he wants to turn to starboard. REALLY!!! We’ll I’d seen him dock the day before and it was the worst I’ve seen, so I wasn’t going to have him make a rash manoeuvre in my direction. I stopped and let him go round the front of me, what an idiot.

Apart from that it turned out to be quite an uneventful journey, and we arrived in Brightlingsea at 4.35pm.

We passed 3 windfarms today and were in the lee of all off them at some point. It was quite noticable how the wind speed dropped behind all of them up to 50% at times. I was glad I wasn’t tempted to shake our one reef out of the main during the lulls.

Trip 44 miles. Total so far 221 miles.

Good news, We found a bottle of Calor Gas. Hoorah!

Day 11

Rest day today.

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