260624 Not the Smelly Sugar Boat!

Blisteringly hot day, an afternoon on the water would be just the thing to cool down. If we could find some wind. It was a slow start but after drifting past the caravan park, with a bit of help from the tide, we did find 10 knots or so out beyond Perch Rock. After dodging the Navy and a struggling skipper with a flappy foresail and lots of fenders we gybed back to the north and decided to stay to windward of the guano-encrusted Sugar Boat as in this weather the air downwind was going to be decidedly toxic! Great run past Helensburgh then a few rapid tacks brought us to within 150m of our mooring. With the engine just ticking over Ann picked up the mooring first time and we celebrated and hydrated suitably.