Anyone fancy a sail tomorrow (Sunday Dec 23rd)

Marmalade

Marmalade

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I fancy a sail tomorrow but the family are all too busy Christmassing. I'll be going up to the boat (Neptune Marina) whatever to check her over... does anyone fancy a sail on the Orwell? Thinking of a few hours only just to blow the cobwebs out...

Simon
 
Simon , take my word for it , I would much rather have spent the day with you , but unfortunately other things took priority
Good to hear you had a good day though
 
I went out from Ipswich to Landguard and very pleasant it was too. Gloriously sunny on the Orwell until I got to Landguard and watched an outbound container ship disappear into a hollywood style fog bank so decided to head back to base. By then the fog had enveloped everything and I promptly dissapeared into it and reapperared in another dimension where dinosaurs and 60s B movies ruled and - I digress /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif . I then had the weird experience of going all the way from Landguard to Ipswich seeing nothing at all (very tricky - about 50yd viz) until I got to the Orwell Bridge. Thank god for chartplotters!! Now wish I had radar. Harwich VTS poor vis rules in operation but still several small angling boats anchored on edge of main channel!!
Just great to be back on the boat though.
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We'd had a cracking day until about 3pm ish. We dropped the buoy we'd picked up at Pin Mill when we saw the wall of fog rolling up the river - then we raced it into the lock. I've never motored so slowly into the wet dock before!

Simon
 
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