The trip restarts

When we reached the marina Julian headed straight for the Humber Cruising Club office (which was supposed to close at 1600) and luckily there was still someone there. He had phoned and left a message about our lateness which the berthing officer had just picked up, so he had the paperwork out and ready.

We stowed our baggage and got Robinetta and Worm ready to go. It was tempting to leave as soon as the lock gates opened for free flow, but it would be better to wait until the tide had finished rising, so we ate first.

There were a lot of shipping movements, and once we were ready to go we had to wait for a tug to come through into the fish dock, then hurry to clear the dock area as a large ship came out from the Royal Dock right next to the Fish Dock. There were more big ships waiting to enter the Royal Dock so we stayed in shallow water on the Lincolnshire side for a while.

We got the staysail up, but t did not do much so we just motored over to Spurn Head, closing with the shipping lane, then crossing it at right angles; there were a lot of ship movements!

We anchored in 25' of water, very close to were we were last time. There was another boat already at anchor, rolling noticeably in the swell and wash from large boats. It was just after the top of the tide which had a 5.5m range, so I laid out 20m of chain. It held first time, with the tide running strongly past. Robinetta rolled just as much as the other boat, and it was not easy to get to sleep. Luckily the swell/wash decreased around midnight, and stayed slight for the 2 hours either side of low water. Not a great nights sleep though.