Going out tomorrow

[Gitane]

Weather looks pretty good for end of Feb.

I haven't lifted the boat out yet, so planning to go out onto the Blackwater tomorrow.

Anybody else planning to do something similar?

Gitane?

 

[Lucky Duck]

I'm not sailing tomorrow but had a cracking one today, out from Burnham YH to the Sunken Buxey and back.

If the weather is anything like today it should be a good, enjoy!

 

[LittleSister]

I, too had a cracking sail Saturday afternoon, up the Suffolk/Essex Stour. Much breezier than the Met office had promised, but quite a lot of sunshine. I was the only boat underway on the river!

 

[sailorman]

I, too had a cracking sail Saturday afternoon, up the Suffolk/Essex Stour. Much breezier than the Met office had promised, but quite a lot of sunshine. I was the only boat underway on the river!

I was off of Shotley around 12.30z today

 

[Koeketiene]

I, too had a cracking sail Saturday afternoon, up the Suffolk/Essex Stour. Much breezier than the Met office had promised, but quite a lot of sunshine. I was the only boat underway on the river!

Did you have your eyes closed?

 

[Athene V30]

I got the first coat of antifouling on and bent on sails yesterday.

But it would have been better to be out sailing!

 

[ChattingLil]

I slept on board last night, but didn't get out. However, I did go to the boat jumble in Colchester and then spent the afternoon at Walton on the Naze walking with my aunt and the dogs. It was a lovely afternoon and so nice to see the boats going by - wished I was out there, it looked perfick.

 

[Gitane]

Went out on Sunday.

Brilliant weather, seeing that it was only Feb.

Little wind, but an empty river and nice sunshine.

Sailed (well drifted mostly) from Bradwell to Thirslet buoy and back. I don't think I went above 2 knots all day. A good opportunity to put the kettle on and enjoy the day.

Gitane

 

[dabsolute470]

agree...
we got woke up sunday morning by engines starting and thought we would join the chorus and went for a lovely cruise on the crouch, its great when its empty...
then back to the marina and had drinks on the fly bridge... its february !!

 

[Leighb]

I'm not sailing tomorrow but had a cracking one today, out from Burnham YH to the Sunken Buxey and back.

If the weather is anything like today it should be a good, enjoy!

Have you deserted the Orwell Simon, or is it just for the Winter?

 

[Lucky Duck]

OPYC

Have you deserted the Orwell Simon, or is it just for the Winter?

The boat is still on the hardstanding for a couple of weeks yet so a kind forumite took pity on me and offered me a sail thiers (a very tidy Maxi 1000).

 

[LittleSister]

I was the only boat underway on the river!

I was off of Shotley around 12.30z today

Must have just missed you, then. (Or did you see me nodding off in the cockpit, or perhaps failing to keep a look out while I wrestled the sails up? )

Did you have your eyes closed?

Quite possibly! Otherwise, I'd like to put it down to the salt and spray on my glasses from the wind over tide chop, or early onset Alzheimers.

I did see a couple of boats around the confluence of the Stour and Orwell as I left. Upstream of Shotley Pier the only people I remember seeing were on a couple of boats on their moorings at Wrabness, a boat with a couple of anglers aboard anchored just upstream of there, and (I forgot originally) an orange RIB came down river and messed about close to the northern shore.

 

[Gitane]

Clams

Here is a picture from last week's drift (you couldn't call it a sail really)

Bradwell and the fast disappearing wall.

Gitane