beancounter
Well-Known Member
Creeping out from Shotley at 0350 on Friday...
Hoisting the cruising chute in the pre-dawn twilight, and ghosting away from Felixstowe...
Sunshine and an F3-4 beam reach...
Being gut-wrenchingly, repetitively, achingly sea-sick over the last 10 hours of the journey, and helming in a bit of a mental haze, to give Roger a break...
The glorious sight of Oostende in the early evening sunshine...
Rafting up 5th boat out at RNYSC...
Being woken on Saturday morning by the Voice of God bellowing " Sabre, I have a better berth for you...NOW!"....
Munching a panini sitting on the sea wall in the sunshine...
Boat visiting and nattering...
The magnificent Morganas producing chili con carne for 14 on Saturday evening...
Meeting forumites, making new acquaintances and renewing old ones...
Drinking and nattering...
Lazing in the sunshine...
Boat visiting and nattering...
The despair on board Mr Tinkles when Newcastle United were relegated by an own goal...
Chugging out of RNSYC in the dark, with the glare of the lighthouse illuminating us hoisting sail....
A fishing boat hauling its nets, silhouetted by the dawn, surrounded by seagulls..
Sunshine and F3 on the beam...
Keeping a wary eye on the building clouds behind us as we bowled along towards home....
The water turning from deep blue to the familiar cappuccino colour of our home waters...
3 of us who should have known better wrongly identifying a buoy and finding the depth gauge rapidly approaching zero...
Tying up in Shotley as the thunder rumbled and lighting flashed away out to sea...
Thanks folks for a magnificent, truly memorable weekend.
Hoisting the cruising chute in the pre-dawn twilight, and ghosting away from Felixstowe...
Sunshine and an F3-4 beam reach...
Being gut-wrenchingly, repetitively, achingly sea-sick over the last 10 hours of the journey, and helming in a bit of a mental haze, to give Roger a break...
The glorious sight of Oostende in the early evening sunshine...
Rafting up 5th boat out at RNYSC...
Being woken on Saturday morning by the Voice of God bellowing " Sabre, I have a better berth for you...NOW!"....
Munching a panini sitting on the sea wall in the sunshine...
Boat visiting and nattering...
The magnificent Morganas producing chili con carne for 14 on Saturday evening...
Meeting forumites, making new acquaintances and renewing old ones...
Drinking and nattering...
Lazing in the sunshine...
Boat visiting and nattering...
The despair on board Mr Tinkles when Newcastle United were relegated by an own goal...
Chugging out of RNSYC in the dark, with the glare of the lighthouse illuminating us hoisting sail....
A fishing boat hauling its nets, silhouetted by the dawn, surrounded by seagulls..
Sunshine and F3 on the beam...
Keeping a wary eye on the building clouds behind us as we bowled along towards home....
The water turning from deep blue to the familiar cappuccino colour of our home waters...
3 of us who should have known better wrongly identifying a buoy and finding the depth gauge rapidly approaching zero...
Tying up in Shotley as the thunder rumbled and lighting flashed away out to sea...
Thanks folks for a magnificent, truly memorable weekend.
