October 2nd - Orwell

The promise of gales on Sunday forced me onto the water a day earlier...it's a tough life!  My objective today was to use the outboard to travel as far downstream as possible in the few hours I had available, and then to take the remainder of the flood to sail back to base.  Rain was promised, and duly arrived later in the day, so the last few hours afloat were wet.  But this didn't matter.  Wind was a South Easterly F2, so conditions were relaxed.  It was good to smell that sea air...

11.9nm.  375nm in total