We were up early and down at the pier loading up Watanga with last minute items and of course the dialysis machine, thanks to Martin and Bryon for allowing us to use their pontoon briefly. By 8:30 we cast off, the holiday had begun. The wind forecast was perfect but as always in reality, not quite what it said it would be. The first few hours were very wild. Three reefs and beating into a SW f6 with a 3 metre breaking waves. By the point of no return (half way) it was getting easier, we managed to get some soup down us and by the time we got to Alderney the sea was pretty flat and we were whizzing along.
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| Passing Alderney |
Something went wrong with my calculation of tidal streams as from Alderney onwards we never got our expected boost down to Guernsey. The only tricky part of the journey was that I would have preferred not to go down the little Russell channel in the dark.
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| Nice sunset |
We eventually got in at 11:30 after a very tiring 16hrs. Straight to bed.
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