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| Moonlight over Horsey Mere |
A spare weekend, and an opportunity to pop down to the coast for a one-nighter.
Launched at Woolverstone, and mostly motored over to the Backwaters almost directly into a fresh Southerly F5/6 blow.
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| Seals in Kirby Creek |
Sanctuary in the Backwaters was found up Kirby Creek, trying not to disturb the local wildlife, including a colony of seals a little further upstream. Conditions in Landermere Creek were too windy, but there is always more shelter to be found somewhere.
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| Wind over tide, departing from Hamford Water |
The reward for motoring all that way was a delightful return sail with the wind behind me almost the entire way. I left the Backwaters on the fresh flood, and sailed across Dovercourt Bay in increasingly lumpy conditions, reaching the safety of Harwich harbour before the forecast winds of 20mph arrived.
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| Thames barges moored on the River Orwell |
Back in the Orwell, a reach past Pin Mill as always presented plenty of boats to admire.
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| New rope clutch replacing the previous cleats. Still some tidying up to do. |
The latest modification is a rope clutch for three halyards, replacing the two cleats that used to be there. Works well.
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| White track, Saturday 15th June, 14.3nm; Red track, Sunday 16th June 16.4nm; Total length 30.7nm |
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