Psst. Marconi tomorrow night

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FullCircle

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Have decided to go to Marconi and hang off a buoy tomorrow night, and have a bbq on the sea wall from about 6pm.
They have a Cocktail party for the RNLI which probably would benefit from some thirst support, and I have been made welcome, so the rest of you should be red carpetted.

Would love to see anyone there!
 
Cocktail party? sounds very unlike us... Can't be there as in Gravelines and heading for Oostende before coming back. The swlies are disappearing though???
 
In Tollesbury but boat house batteries flat so not going nowhere at the moment. Good news engine started first time after 9 months so mucho relief.

Hope you are having a grand time at Marconi

Saguday-ites
 
A grand welcome from Marconi, even tried a Mojito, but eventually a bottle of house red (is this the cheapest on the East Coast at £7.50 a bottle?)

We used their outdoor Barbecue facility, and was amazed to see so many vans, campers and tents in the field for sailing week.

Brilliant place. SWMBO wants to join.


Also, best weekends sailing for at least 2 seasons. Hang on to your hat.

We arrived at boat and I flicked instruments on to see 2.3m depth at the pontoon, which meant 1.3m at the entrance bar. TRook the decision to go for it quickly, and disconnected leccy, threw off the lines and whizzed out. We went aground just on the entrance, but I opened the throttle wide open and ploughed our escape at 1.6kts, and then we were free....

10 knots Beamy to dead downwind out of the Crouch on Saturday morning, out to Swin at dead low water, then the dog leg back upwind into the Blackwater. 12-15 knots Fine reach to Bench Head, then looong tacks to Marconi, dropped the sails only 300 yards off the moorings, the condition of which are a credit to the club.
Got Full Circle fully wound up and worked out 2 things.
1. The Wind instrument is reading 15 degrees to port, must fix that
2. The log is faster on one tack than the other, maybe its not pointing in the direction it should.

Best thing about Saturdays sail is that Dave accidentally tacked while I was on the loo. Then off the loo. Ahem.

However, for some odd reason, then noticed that the JRC GPS was actually displaying and working for the 1st time in 18 months. How bizarre, but very welcome.

Today was a decent 8am breakfast, cleared the mooring by 9am, then, with 20kts up the chuff, full main and a reefed genny, we were dead downwind at 7kts until just past Bradwell, then the right turn towards the Swin meant 120 degree reach, and the wind got up to 25kts, and we were doing up to 9kts, but it got a bit bent out of shape, so we put a reef in and shot across the Swin at a full gallop.

Turning into the Crouch did not look good for us, so we rolled away the genny and motored into it smack on the nose up the Swallowtail, until we got pretty much into the mouth of the Crouch and put the main away, as it was now a solid 25kts gusting 30 on the hhoter, which is not pleasant.

Then, we came round into the river, the wind eased to 20kts and backed round to the South a bit, so we unrolled 2/3rds of the genny, and set off fine reaching at 7kts.
Then an almighty squall came through, and viz was nil for about 3 or 4 minutes, so we rolled away again as we had reached the end of Burnham moorings.

Got back into Bridgemarsh with a rising tide and just 0.1m clearance. Good timing.

Lasstly, Alshira is on her berth, as shiny as a shiny thing, and making the rest of us looking rather dowdy. Must get Ali to show me round.
 
FullCircle said:
A grand welcome from Marconi, even tried a Mojito, but eventually a bottle of house red (is this the cheapest on the East Coast at £7.50 a bottle?)

We used their outdoor Barbecue facility, and was amazed to see so many vans, campers and tents in the field for sailing week.

Brilliant place. SWMBO wants to join.


Also, best weekends sailing for at least 2 seasons. Hang on to your hat.

We arrived at boat and I flicked instruments on to see 2.3m depth at the pontoon, which meant 1.3m at the entrance bar. TRook the decision to go for it quickly, and disconnected leccy, threw off the lines and whizzed out. We went aground just on the entrance, but I opened the throttle wide open and ploughed our escape at 1.6kts, and then we were free....

10 knots Beamy to dead downwind out of the Crouch on Saturday morning, out to Swin at dead low water, then the dog leg back upwind into the Blackwater. 12-15 knots Fine reach to Bench Head, then looong tacks to Marconi, dropped the sails only 300 yards off the moorings, the condition of which are a credit to the club.
Got Full Circle fully wound up and worked out 2 things.
1. The Wind instrument is reading 15 degrees to port, must fix that
2. The log is faster on one tack than the other, maybe its not pointing in the direction it should.

Best thing about Saturdays sail is that Dave accidentally tacked while I was on the loo. Then off the loo. Ahem.

However, for some odd reason, then noticed that the JRC GPS was actually displaying and working for the 1st time in 18 months. How bizarre, but very welcome.

Today was a decent 8am breakfast, cleared the mooring by 9am, then, with 20kts up the chuff, full main and a reefed genny, we were dead downwind at 7kts until just past Bradwell, then the right turn towards the Swin meant 120 degree reach, and the wind got up to 25kts, and we were doing up to 9kts, but it got a bit bent out of shape, so we put a reef in and shot across the Swin at a full gallop.

Turning into the Crouch did not look good for us, so we rolled away the genny and motored into it smack on the nose up the Swallowtail, until we got pretty much into the mouth of the Crouch and put the main away, as it was now a solid 25kts gusting 30 on the hhoter, which is not pleasant.

Then, we came round into the river, the wind eased to 20kts and backed round to the South a bit, so we unrolled 2/3rds of the genny, and set off fine reaching at 7kts.
Then an almighty squall came through, and viz was nil for about 3 or 4 minutes, so we rolled away again as we had reached the end of Burnham moorings.

Got back into Bridgemarsh with a rising tide and just 0.1m clearance. Good timing.

Lasstly, Alshira is on her berth, as shiny as a shiny thing, and making the rest of us looking rather dowdy. Must get Ali to show me round.
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Nice................

Heavy winds have certainly been a feature this year.
 
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