Sailing Yesterday

Cobra

Cobra

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Those of you that were desk bound yesterday missed a glorious day on the water!

I decided that I had been working quite hard enough over the last few weeks and so decided to take the day off and go for a sail.

Left my mooring at 11.20, sails up in Brightlingsea Creek, beating out into about 12 knots from the SSE and headed towards Sales Point and on up the Rays'n. Tacked in the vicinity of the Swire Hole and broad reached back into the Colne and back on the pontoon by 16.30.

Lots of sails out there...were you one of them??

If not, hard luck!!!
 
Also not, but got my folding bike from repair and had a ride with SWMBO from Holland on Sea to Clacton. It looked lovely out there and a couple of craft reaching in both directions seemed to be enjoying themselves.
 
Yes, a good day with a veering wind which made the Mersea - Colne - Mersea choice not as good as yours.

While in the Swire Hole was the yellow EA buoy still on the end of Batchelor Spit?
 
Saw you slipping out of the Quarters from my office at 110 Coast Road, Tiller Girl, and I agree, it did look ideal. I wasn't too envious, though, as I did the same thing on Tuesday, which was even better. I slipped my mooring in Buzzen at about midday, and was back in the office by 2pm, having had a terrifc blast up Bradwell Creek and into very shallow water in St Lawrence Bay, before retracing my course back through Bradwell, but accelerated by a well-established ebb tide.

A benign southerly, T shirt weather in September and a lunchtime tide. Irresistible.
 
Roger,

We've been across Raysand a couple of times recently, including last sunday. We went close to where the yellow buoy should have been, but it wasn't there. Last year, it was replaced by an little orange round buoy. This year, I haven't even seen that.
 
AliM said:
Roger,

We've been across Raysand a couple of times recently, including last sunday. We went close to where the yellow buoy should have been, but it wasn't there. Last year, it was replaced by an little orange round buoy. This year, I haven't even seen that.
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We found it last Sunday. :p

Its a long way from anywhere you might think, a long way out into the river deep. I marked it on our chartplotter, will post its current position tomorrow when we get on the boat.
 
Thanks Ali and FC. BC - must have just missed you Tuesday. Out early in the flat calm and up to Lawling for a prod around before returning to get some more data in Bradwell Creek. I've got half the gardens of Mersea on the bottom at the moment. Progress is painful.....
 
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