Summer lows!

Typical!  A low pressure system parked over the UK all weekend.  High pressure mid-week...

Passing squall.  Photos always seem to make the sea look smoother!
The only photos to be taken today were from the safety of the cockpit at anchor...
...too busy hanging on at other times...!

The plan had been to go for a cruise this weekend, but forecast winds SW F5-7 on both Saturday and Sunday put paid to that.  In the end, I was grateful for sailing, on both days, along the Orwell anchoring off Trinity Terminal Docks for a while, and then working my way back.

Particularly on Saturday, the Orwell was deserted and conditions looked worse in Harwich harbour.  A ferry managed to collide with Parkestone Quay on Saturday and, much as I'd like to have sailed round to look, put up with a gander at the bbc report.  On both days, hanging out a scrap of jib would have been sufficient, and gave me a top speed of 6 knots running down the Orwell towards the turn at Levington.  On Sunday, I braved using both jib and mizzen, and had a fantastic, if hair-raising reach from the turn to and from Shotley Point.  It was a day, however, for keeping a careful watch on the clouds - when the squalls arrived, they packed a punch and it was no time to be sailing; thankfully, I was at anchor at such times.

7.3nm Saturday, (yellow track), 7.4nm Sunday (red track); Season's total 196.2nm

Postscript!
Further photos have been added to the Wells-next-the Sea rally, including a dropbox link to several hundred pictures!