Ricky Griffiths

Wind was mild, blowing up to 8 knots at points with periods of complete calm. Currents were gentle as well, not exceeding 1 knot. Covered almost 80 nautical miles in nearly 19 hours due to the overly mild conditions. Departure: Dunkirk at 04:34 Arrival: Wallasea Ness (River Crouch) at ~23:30 Distance: 76.6 NM Elapsed Time: 18h 58m Average Speed: 4.0 knots

Conditions were mild with wind gusting up to 12 knots and a current beneath us of up to 3 knots sea wasn’t particularly choppy but we’re experiencing swells of 1.5m at their peak

We left at 4:45 from the crouch river with a northern wind gusting up to 18kts and the tide going out with a current underneath us or approximately 3 kts allowing us to achieve 9.5 knots speed over ground at our top speed on the journey arriving at 12:00

Westerly breeze gusting up to 8kts used this milder wind to give the spinnaker a go on Orissa on the journey to Fambridge yacht club departed rcyc at 2:30 and arrived at Fambridge at 5:15

Left Suffolk yacht harbour and Anchored up at Walton on the naze for the night as wind conditions worsened gusting up to 45kt winds, waking up at 4:30 to leave and head towards wakering with wind still blowing up to 32kt