St Peter Port to Lymington via Braye

Grenville Houser

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