The Last Sail of the Season

Habebty

Habebty

Well-Known Member
Joined
16 May 2001
Messages
4,538
Location
Norfolk/Suffolk
Visit site
And it wasn’t bad despite the drizzle today. Left Fox’s yesterday afternoon and had a slow sail down the river to pick up a mooring at Levington.
Heater on, dinner in the oven, and a good fug building in the saloon, radio on and a good book. It was that lovely cosy setting that is so good this time of year.
Got up early and slipped the mooring, for a sail down to Landguard while it was still dry. Wind over tide made it a bit bumpy, but washed the decks down nicely. Turned round for a blast up the Stour and watched myself sail past Hapenny Pier on their webcam :)
Turned round at Ewarton for a cracking beam reach hitting 8 knots before taking a long arc round Shotley back up the Orwell into the drizzle but still nice to sail. Saw one other boat all day.
Will pack up the boat tomorrow and look forward to the spring :)
 
Habebty said:
And it wasn’t bad despite the drizzle today. Left Fox’s yesterday afternoon and had a slow sail down the river to pick up a mooring at Levington.
Heater on, dinner in the oven, and a good fug building in the saloon, radio on and a good book. It was that lovely cosy setting that is so good this time of year.
Got up early and slipped the mooring, for a sail down to Landguard while it was still dry. Wind over tide made it a bit bumpy, but washed the decks down nicely. Turned round for a blast up the Stour and watched myself sail past Hapenny Pier on their webcam :)
Turned round at Ewarton for a cracking beam reach hitting 8 knots before taking a long arc round Shotley back up the Orwell into the drizzle but still nice to sail. Saw one other boat all day.
Will pack up the boat tomorrow and look forward to the spring :)
Click to expand...
I glad you enjoyed something I can't cope with any more. I went down to the boat at Titchmarsh yesterday to pat her bottom and feed the meter. It was quite pleasant, so I went round the back with a 'scope and saw a flock of pintails, numerous avocets and golden plovers, and thousands of wigeon, teal, knot and dunlin.
 
Sounds a cheerful way to enter the winter ashore!

I took Khamsin round to Ullapool on 29th October.
Gorgeous sunshine, snow on the hills. A strong SE'ly had me belting across to Loch Broom at 6kts/7kts on a broad reach with two reefs in the mainsail and 1/3 working jib.
Then it was a very long, hard, wet, freezing beat up to Ullapool 8nm away.

The S&R helicopter came to "see me", (it was on an exercise); I gave them thumbs-up and spoke to them on the VHF. Five minutes later Stornoway CG called me on VHF to ask "Size, skipper's name, destination, ETA, crew number and if I was OK".
It was good to know the CG et al were keeping an eye on the only yacht out in on what was a notable wind/sea. I phoned them that evening to thank them.

An exciting end to the season, and a memorable one for many reasons.
 
eastlands said:
You make the autumn mist/drizzle sound so romantic (as I know it can be). I'm almost envious of you tucked up in the cabin with the heater going. I lifted out in last week if September....
Click to expand...

Very envious too...we had a cracking 'last sail' out to Roughs Tower and back; but that was a few weeks ago...spent Saturday emptying the boat (in the rain) as we are lifting out this week :( …. what will I do for the next 18 weeks :confused:
 
Habebty said:
And it wasn’t bad despite the drizzle today. Left Fox’s yesterday afternoon and had a slow sail down the river to pick up a mooring at Levington.
Heater on, dinner in the oven, and a good fug building in the saloon, radio on and a good book. It was that lovely cosy setting that is so good this time of year.
Got up early and slipped the mooring, for a sail down to Landguard while it was still dry. Wind over tide made it a bit bumpy, but washed the decks down nicely. Turned round for a blast up the Stour and watched myself sail past Hapenny Pier on their webcam :)
Turned round at Ewarton for a cracking beam reach hitting 8 knots before taking a long arc round Shotley back up the Orwell into the drizzle but still nice to sail. Saw one other boat all day.
Will pack up the boat tomorrow and look forward to the spring :)
Click to expand...

That sounds a great finale. Late autumn sailing can be wonderful.

johnalison said:
It was quite pleasant, so I went round the back with a 'scope and saw a flock of pintails
Click to expand...

I do hope that's not a euphemism? :)

Robert Wilson said:
Attack the "Winter's List" and hope all the major stuff gets completed :eek:
Click to expand...

I add to my winter list most days, but haven't managed to cross anything off yet!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.

Share this page

Top