jimmy_the_builder
Well-Known Member
Wow, what a weekend we've just had. Swmbo and I decided to head west from Brighton on Saturday morning, and see where we ended up. After taking an hour at Brighton to fuel up (Premier Marinas take note: having only one functioning diesel pump, and one member of staff who keeps vanishing for 30mins at a time to open the lock, on a sunny Saturday morning just really is not the way to look after your customers...) we finally got away at 1230.
We decided to route south of the Isle of Wight, thinking of perhaps taking the long way round to Lymington, or maybe running straight on to Weymouth. We took about 90 mins to get to St Catherines Point, where we stopped for about half an hour, and drifted while having lunch. Lovely.
And then we thought ... this sea state is just too good to resist - so let's try for Dartmouth. And that's exactly what we did - flat seas the whole way, bar the tiniest race you've ever seen at Portland, 32kts through the water for the entire trip. Just for a change I thought I'd try the camcorder on the boat, so here are a couple of fragments from Lyme bay to show just how flat it is when it is flatter than a flat thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1arlRSMZmFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9C_ezPOVY
Anyway - after about 140nm, we berthed up at Darthaven. Had a great couple of days, had a brilliant meal on Sunday evening with Hurricane and Mrs Hurricane of this parish (Spice Bazaar does the business once again) and then came back on Monday - not quite as flat as a flat thing this time, but a comfortable 30kts all the way across Lyme Bay, and 32kts once we were east of the Bill. Back on our home berth in Brighton by 5pm. What a weekend!
Cheers
Jimmy
We decided to route south of the Isle of Wight, thinking of perhaps taking the long way round to Lymington, or maybe running straight on to Weymouth. We took about 90 mins to get to St Catherines Point, where we stopped for about half an hour, and drifted while having lunch. Lovely.
And then we thought ... this sea state is just too good to resist - so let's try for Dartmouth. And that's exactly what we did - flat seas the whole way, bar the tiniest race you've ever seen at Portland, 32kts through the water for the entire trip. Just for a change I thought I'd try the camcorder on the boat, so here are a couple of fragments from Lyme bay to show just how flat it is when it is flatter than a flat thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1arlRSMZmFc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9s9C_ezPOVY
Anyway - after about 140nm, we berthed up at Darthaven. Had a great couple of days, had a brilliant meal on Sunday evening with Hurricane and Mrs Hurricane of this parish (Spice Bazaar does the business once again) and then came back on Monday - not quite as flat as a flat thing this time, but a comfortable 30kts all the way across Lyme Bay, and 32kts once we were east of the Bill. Back on our home berth in Brighton by 5pm. What a weekend!
Cheers
Jimmy
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