Marmalade
Well-known member
With a number of contradictory forecasts flying around we spent Friday night in the Blackwater on the mooring. Saturday - and it's up early for the start of the club's annual shakedown cruise to Burnham. The weather was fine and the forecast 4-5 occasionally 6 didn't sound too scary. But... in our delight at the fine morning we forgot our old adage - always add 1 to the highest number in the forecast and then ask yourself if you'd still go. 3 hours later, after a superb sail out to the spitway, we're fighting a 7, wind against tide and right on the nose, with a jammed furler and wife & kids calling me every name under the sun. Made it to Burnham with a v shaken family. Anyone else out in it on Saturday or was I the only muppet?