May 24th, Short trip on the Orwell

The latest addition to the Drascombe fleet at Pin Mill: coaster Windsong

Windsong also featured in this blog towards the end of May 2013 when her owner brought her down for a short bank holiday cruise. This was entitled 'Duet with coaster Windsong' and, presumably, a good impression was made, since she now has a mooring two buoys along from my own.  So, I'm looking forward to making more music in due course!

Today's trip was about a short sail to straighten things out, and to measure up the cockpit cover in order to have a replacement made - another post on this in due course.  I arrived at the boat about 90 minutes before LW, and motored downstream to a late lunchtime anchorage opposite Suffolk Yacht Harbour.  Wind was F5 southerly, so I enjoyed the return sail under jib and mizzen, quite sufficient to shift us along with the fresh flood at around 5 knots.

4.6nm

This week is the half term holiday and I'm looking forward to a three night, four day cruise from Tuesday through to Friday.  As luck would have it, the current forecast looks generally wet and miserable - various low pressure systems queuing up to pass over - but the opportunity is too good to miss, so nothing short of a hurricane will stop this happening!  Hopefully, I should be able to visit a few old haunts such as the Walton Backwaters, the top end of the Stour and, if the weather allows, a trip up the Deben to Woodbridge.