RE: UPDATE

Tripled
Fri 17 Jun 2011 04:03
Well done But go to Salty's or the George for a slap up feast!!!!!

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Subject: UPDATE

Well after James and I had a lovely sedate shift, it all kicked off at 4am.
My first thought as the boat heeled right over and I fell from one side of
bed to the other was "what is Andy doing now?!" - he is always doing
something to make sleep more uncomfortable on his shifts! It turned out that

what had happened was a huge squall which increased the wind strength from 6

knots to 32 knots in about a minute. After the squall had passed, the wind
stayed up at 25 plus knots so it seemed time to reassess our Salcombe plan.
Mum and Andy looked at the grib files and at the shipping forecast - it
seemed that we would be fine to enter Salcombe, and safe enough to leave,
however that would mean another night at sea at potentially 30+ knots of
wind. They debated crepes V safety for quite a while until safety won out by

a narrow margin.
So the plan was made to sail on to Weymouth - only a day sail from Emsworth
and with easier transport links than Salcombe for Andy to get back to work
if we were to get stuck. By midday, however, we had made such good progress
with a strong tide with us that we changed our minds and headed for
Yarmouth.
With 20+ knots of wind, often gusting 30+, we were making extremely good
speed over the water. However, rounding Portland we had 4 knots of tide
against us which continued for quite a while - 4 knots of tide against 25
knots of wind makes for very rough seas!! Also so depressing to be sailing
at 8 knots but barely making 4 over the ground.
Our ETA in Yarmouth is around 9pm, maybe sooner once the tide turns. We now
only have 1.5kts of current against us. We can have a late fish and chip
dinner, a safe night in a marina, and then still get to Emsworth for around
lunch time tomorrow!!

Our position at 1715BST is 50:31.4N 002:02.3W.