Scrubbing Posts

West Mersea Yacht Club maintain a pair of scrubbing posts which can be hired for a tenner. We headed to the boat Monday night and slept until 2am and got onto the posts at about 3am, a little after high water. It was a high spring tide - 5.6m and we had at least a fathom of water under us with only enough of the posts showing to tie up to.

By 6am we were high and dry, but being bed loving folks we didn't venture down until 7. As expected, there was a lot of weed. The new prop and the whole of the lower hull were totally encrusted in barnacles.

Judicious use of broom and car ice scraper and generous amounts of elbow grease resulted in a nice clean hull with plenty of time to spare. We waited until Worm was afloat and rowed to the pontoon and had ham egg & chips at the Blackwater Pearl. Shortly after we got back Robinetta was afloat and we motored back to our mooring.

It was Mersea Cadet Week and we saw the Optimist, Laser, Topper and RS fleets and a miscellaneous group of Mirrors and other dinghies go out and come back. In the afternoon, the Oppies raced right passed us in the Ray Channel.