🎶We’re All Going On A 🎶 Summer Holiday 🎶

[Frayed Knot]

So… we’re tucked up at anchor in a corner on the Deben on the second day of our summer cruise.
NNW wind gusting mid twenties to low thirties, occasional driving rain.
Temperature 12C with several degrees of wind-chill.
One of the dinghy oars has managed to jump over the four inch bulwark, never to be seen again.
For more information on this boat please visit Apollo Duck

 

[tillergirl]

Domestic weather this evening predicted chances of a Frost tonight and tomorrow night in Suffolk! Seriously!

 

[Frayed Knot]

Domestic weather this evening predicted chances of a Frost tonight and tomorrow night in Suffolk! Seriously!

Thanks for trying but you really won’t cheer me up that easily
It’s actually rather lovely now, if a bit chilly.

 

[Hadenough]

So… we’re tucked up at anchor in a corner on the Deben on the second day of our summer cruise.
NNW wind gusting mid twenties to low thirties, occasional driving rain.
Temperature 12C with several degrees of wind-chill.
One of the dinghy oars has managed to jump over the four inch bulwark, never to be seen again.
For more information on this boat please visit Apollo Duck

Good sunset tonight on the Orwell though.

 

[DanTribe]

We had exactly the same in the last week of May. Deben can be lovely but a solid week of constant 25 knots, grey, cold and rain, it starts to pall.

 

[johnalison]

You are very lucky. Harwich looked so tempting today from Hamford Water. My crew celebrated the fine weather by falling in from the pontoon back in Titchmarsh, thus demonstrating that our boarding ladder doesn't just look pretty. I was so impressed with his antics that I completely forgot to get my camera out.

 

[oldgit]

Flaming June Eh ......?
A summer shower passed over us yesterday.
The sidedeck drains simply gave up and overflowed .

 

[Frayed Knot]

Flaming June Eh ......?
A summer shower passed over us yesterday.
The sidedeck drains simply gave up and overflowed .

Their flow capacity sounds similar to that of johnalison’s crew-sympathy.

 

[Clancy Moped]

Palma Airport yesterday afternoon...

 

[Plum]

You are very lucky. Harwich looked so tempting today from Hamford Water. My crew celebrated the fine weather by falling in from the pontoon back in Titchmarsh, thus demonstrating that our boarding ladder doesn't just look pretty. I was so impressed with his antics that I completely forgot to get my camera out.

Congratulations on having a good boarding ladder.

 

[johnalison]

Congratulations on having a good boarding ladder.

I can’t say that I gave it any thought when I bought the boat, but it is a good ladder and has I think four rungs in the water. I leave it unsecured all the time and only its own weight keeps it in place. This looks insecure but it has never once deployed itself when under way. There was an occasion when, after a disturbed night, a guest on board took it upon himself to clean our stern. The rest of us were still en bunk at 7am and we heard a long moan followed by a splash as our guest ignored the information I had given him and used the ladder for support.

 

[RivalRedwing]

and this weekend is looking just as good.... gusting 33 knots off Felixstowe on Saturday and a little less on Sunday (25 knots)... happy Fathers Day sails!

 

[johnalison]

and this weekend is looking just as good.... gusting 33 knots off Felixstowe on Saturday and a little less on Sunday (25 knots)... happy Fathers Day sails!

Only gusting? Not worth taking in a reef then.

 

[WF36]

Good sunset tonight on the Orwell though.

 

[Aquaboy]

Pinmill smack race saturday.......bound to be s..t

 

[oldgit]

Went for a Fathers Day Cruise and lunch today .
For those in the know "The Shades" at the far end of Stangate Creek.
Just about as sheltered as you can get and it was low water.
Three of us tried to raft up and simply could not find something to hold us against the actually rather warmish wind.
Gave up and anchored in the main creek hard against the west shore for a bit of shelter.
Popped few corks and sat back.
It became eventually very obvious that eastern bank of the creek was on the move and coming across to meet us.
Up sticks , back to where had started from, but this time with considerably more chain out .
Really nice run back until the wind picked up and it started to rain just as we approached the moorings.
Two small yachts high and dry on the sea wall one had definately been under water a few times.
Assume broken adrift from the moorings.

 

[RivalRedwing]

Pinmill smack race saturday.......bound to be s..t

how was it?

 

[Black Diamond]

Thames Barge Match was canceled, we dropped down from St Kat's on Saturday hoping to catch the barges on their return leg, but there were six of them on the starvation buoys at Gravesend, plus the Adieu, which was chugging back upstream. We overnighted in Queenborough then rolled down the Swin between Wyvenhoe and Thalatta on Sunday, which apart from one rain squall was champagne sailing.

 

[Frayed Knot]

One particular member of the crew accuses me of always moaning so, to refute her scurrilous slur, it wasn’t all bad last week.
As well as eating and drinking rather well we had some very enjoyable bird watching - a cockpit tent, open on one side, makes for a luxurious hide, with all conveniences to hand.
As well as the more expected candidates on the Deben we were visited by these: the great northern diver (I think, but I’m happy to be corrected) last Sunday and the great egret yesterday, just before upping anchor for a very pleasant sail to Orford.
I may now reconsider and take the boat off the market after all.

 

[AntarcticPilot]

Could be a juvenile Great Northern.