Gentle Sailing

Drum of Drake

Today was a gentle sail from Ipswich to Wrabness. We beat down the Orwell in the company of the beautiful schooner Drum of Drake and the annoyingly fast My Quest.

It was well worth getting the sail up despite the light winds; much more restful than having an engine thumping away.

My Quest

At Wrabness we got the sail down and stooged around looking for a good place to anchor and eventually dropped the hook bang on low water, right by the drying spit with about 2' under the keel. We still put out over 15 fathoms of chain - we didn't want a repetition of our previous visit.

In the evening we went ashore for the briefing for the Pennyhole Bay race. There was some fine music making going on and a grand bonfire but we were both feeling the need for a little down time and we rowed back to Robinetta for a quiet evening. Our timing was excellent as we avoided getting wet during the overnight thunderstorm