Left at 0200, which was a mistake, because there was no moon (cloudy skies) and you couldn’t see the pot buoys in the bay. South West wind so quite a roll, which that and the dark didn’t agree with the crew, so back to solo sailing most of the time. Tide against us in Lyme Bay and turned 10 miles before Portland Bill👍. Stayed 5 miles south of Portland Bill and conditions good. Carried a fair tide until the Needles Channel, which slowly turned against us (very lumpy), upto about 2.5 knots in Hurst Narrows and rough conditions all the way to Lymington. Probably 20-25SW against a strong ebb. 
☹️ Half way across Lyme Bay there were quite a few fishermen buoys which surprised me being so far out in 50 metres. South of Portland we sailed straight across 50 metres of floating tug rope? (What luck)! 3”+ diameter. Managed to pull it on the boat,  so hopefully it just traversed underneath in front of the keel 🤞. Wasn’t comfortable with it there and it was slowing us down a lot. Back breakingly fed it out one side and pulled it in the other (doing 6 knots), not wanting to let go of the end until the last minute. In case it caught underneath or wasn’t where I thought it was. Success!!!
Managed to give it to Lymington Harbour Master. Thank you. 

Crew: 2

Crew Logs

Comments (0)