49.43.524N

002.11.625W

 

Alderney II

 

Blog again via sat phone as no mobile signal from the anchorage (which means sadly no photos).

 

It is extremely rocky and rolly on board despite no wind now so we are making a plan to sail south to Guernsey tomorrow and make the most of the northerly wind due from midnight (which will make the anchorage even more rocky!). Hopefully be there by lunchtime if we get the tides right.

 

However, we have had a lovely day today, the third birthday of the trip. After a very relaxed start (including the F6 squall that was promised) we headed ashore for a walk into St Anne's and treated ourselves to a delicious lunch in The Georgian Hotel. It was so interesting to walk around the town and see the very distinct houses, cobbled streets, English trees, Alderney number plates, German bunkers built into cliffs, the long sandy beach, very long breakwater and incessant swell throughout the harbour.

 

We are anticipating a bad night so am sending this before the computer goes flying off the nav desk!

 

We definitely want to return to Alderney, but will come when it is smoother, 3/4 Minchins now doped up with stugeron anti-seasick tablets to get through the night and morning!

 

xx