YMO Practice Day 7

Timothy Harkness

Night sail with Kev and Ivan. Went to Chichester through this gap in the submarine barrier, anchored off Langstone near the isolated danger mark, then headed off to Chichester, went into Chichester. With the flood tide, came out again. As we were coming out, lights came on, headed into Langstone, went into Langstone under darkness. All was pretty straightforward. Turned around, wind started to die, and we began to motor, motored around the isolated danger mark, and then headed at 270 degrees, which took us through the submarine barrier gap into the channel, and then home. Leaving the dock and returning to dock was not perfect. Just need to be totally clear on roles and plans, for example, how the midships line is used, and remember when reversing after having gone forward into a bow spring, to straighten the wheel before engaging reverse.