A place they call Home

Wow the temperature is really different down here. It's October & not that far away it's nearly 30c a record for this time of year ! Still this morning there was good old fog but that soon burnt off and the warm air I felt as we approached the island was entering the hatches once more & drying my insides out.

The passage from Weymouth gave one more chance to do what I do best & sail. Having left the old town at 1030, replacing my water pump first. I sailed at 8knots on the rhumb line to the next way point, keeping me away from Lulworth firing range, at this rate I'd reach the Needles around 1700. After lunch I was tacked over only to find that the wind & the angle was not great, so the engine went back on, shame, it had been a good run.  Yet again though the windex played up and despite re-setting them to factory defaults it still didn't work properly. I can see another trip up the mast for my skipper, turning the vane slowly through two 360 degree motions to re-calibrate it.

Cowes was extremely busy, the warm weather had brought everyone out, no doubt a welcome injection of last minute income to the community. I passed all these lights & yachts I've not seen so many in one place, & taken up a river to find a place to stay. It got really shallow at one point but I swung round & came to on a remote pontoon, likely to be my home for a while.

So 787 nm, 250 lts of fuel, 13 days, 5 crew, 2 night passages, 1 crew change, I'm in Cowes

Now the adventures begin, just need to sort all the little jobs out first

Don't forget to revisit the blog to see photo's as they're added plus possibly more detail added to the routes