Forecast SW F4-5 pretty much all the way.
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| Flying along |
0630 English time and off we set, the calm before the storm. well heavy shower. About an hour out of Cherbourg, Lou asleep again Full sail up, all of a sudden it's getting dark and the wind has just hit 23 knots, quickly put a reef in main and genoa back to cockpit to find 28knots registering, another reef in genoa and we are flying along boat speed hits 10.6kts, luckily we're going downwind. That was the only drama of the day as the wind died down to a more manageable F4-5 and the weather gradually got brighter.
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| Force 5 -6 and coffee steady as a rock |
There was I thinking I hadn't seen much in the way of big ships when 4 buggers in a box formation decided to descend upon me. A bit of manouvering was required. Worse than a port start on a gusty thursday evening race. (I was on port).
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| Faint circle in sky is the red arrows over Swanage |
A sudden squeal of delight as Lou spots the red arrows, well at least the big smoke ring drawn in the sky. At that point we were still 2.5 hours from home
15:30 and we are back on the mooring. Hey Ho Holidays over.
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