Robinetta comes home

For many years, Mike Garnham kept Robinetta at the Orwell Yacht Club. Peggy, the boat I stayed on in Belfast, now has her mooring, just south of the Orwell Bridge. Peggy, is of course on the Round Britain Challenge and the Club graciously allowed us to use the mooring until the Jubilee cruise. This was especially fortuitous given the weather in the Wallet today - we would not have enjoyed the trip back.

Our good friend Melvyn looks after the moorings and crane at the OYC and had his Westerly at Wrabness. He kindly offered to take us ashore - its about 3/4 mile and the weather was not the best for rowing Worm.

I love it when not having a plan comes together. Thanks to Melvyn we got safely landed and put away at the Orwell Yacht Club and driven to the station just in time to miss the fast train to Colchester. But it didn't leave on time and we caught it! At Colchester we were 3 minutes late for the bus to West Mersea. 2 hours until the next one. But due to the wonders of Mersea spring tides, the bus had had to wait for the Strood and was 4 minutes late!

 

The bus dropped us by Tesco and I went to get the car while Alison bought some liver for dinner. She met Keith and Julie whilst shopping and we had a little chat about the weekend.