Living on Poole town quay among all the posh motorboats and a few superyachts has been a nice change. The night after the fireworks we had a car show on the front, which people drove their own cars to. There must have been around a hundred altogether, from the Austin Healy club, Triumphs, and all the usuall MG's through to the modern Lotus elises, Mazdas and a few AC Cobras.
Anne & Alex came down Sunday 3rd June to see us but we only had time for a tea as we had to be out of the marina by 1200. We cast off at 1215 intending to go out of the harbour for a look at the Looe channel which is a shorter route to the Solent than the main channel, and then to Brownsea island until Wednesday when the tides would be in our favour going into the Solent without having to get up at two in the morning!
After going through the channel, we decided to go as far as Christchurch, where we would anchor in the bay, but it was such a nice sail we carried on (through 300m of overfalls at Christchurch ledge) all the way to the North channel into the Solent, flying the cruising chute the whole way. We took down the chute and started the engine expecting the North channel & the trap to be everything they were suposed to be against a spring tide 10m from the steep beach between shoal banks, but as usual everyone had exagerated the dangers and it was a nice sail through to Yarmouth where we picked up a mooring buoy. Stupidly I took an outside buoy which ended up causing us the roughest part of the trip - things were falling off the table. Even I felt queasy - luckily Mayuri was knocked out on a seasickness pill already!
As the harbour master took my £11.50 the next morning, he helpfully told me that if we come again we should use the buoys closer to the beach.
