Imogen de la Bere

Left the basin @1645 once rise of tide had reached 7.1. Then set main with single feet and headed North up the Little Russell. Bit bumpy! With tide beneath topped 8kts SOG. Once at Roustel was able to beat away a little and opened genoa. So as SOG dropped away the boat speed stayed good. At some point with waters flat I decided to revise course and cut across the South Alderney bank - it was fine. Closed Alderney and more disturbance. Went inside Race but outside Blanchard. Next time need to look at inshore passage! Into Braye. Rounded up and dropped main before docking at jetty opposite the LB. Picked up Jeremy and Imogen and off we went. I stayed on watch until we cleared the East bound and then west bound traffic. By 0300 I was knackered and took to bunk. Jeremy held the Watch. He woke me 14 miles out from SW Shingles. Decided to go for Lymington. Which we did seeing about 1000 am. Good fast passage but motorsailng

Early start. Slipped on time . Needles was lumpy and wind stayed solidly in the SW. ended up motor sailing most of the way. Lost a bit of time early on which had knock on of making us late down little Russell. Thought we might have had to anchor as tide appeared to be going against us, but then it went slack and made it in in nick of time. Kind berthing master bought us inside and we parked stern in s/b side too