From one Saint to another!

Simon Tong

After a lovely stay on Jersey, with a spectacular walk along the north coast it was an early departure this morning to catch the tide across the s coast and then up to St Peter Port before the forecast strong winds tonight and tomorrow. Forecasts suggest Tuesday will be the best day for heading back across 'La Manche' and this will be the best place shelter and then depart from. It was a great sail over rhis morning, quite a bit of swell left over from previous couple of days (Rae said 5m, but about 1.5!) With strong winds forecast we started with a reef in main and genoa. Despite this we were still making over 6kts through the water, and occasionally 7! A Dutch couple left at the same time in their HR 36 and kindly took some photos of Peggy and sent them to Rae. They went past us as we had to tack past Corbiere point having taken a line too close in, but we managed to keep up with them as we both headed up to Guernsey. Lovely aftrrnoon here now, and we were joined for our lunch by what we think is a Meadow Pippit!