Off  for a sailing weekend with my youngest daughter and her boyfriend.

Strong SSW winds when we arrived at Ramsholt which with a strong out going tide made getting the dinghy away from the slipway interesting.

First attempt ended with me having to get over the side and wade through calf deep mud back to the slip for a 2nd try.

Good job I had chest waders on.

Out on the mooring it was a bit rolly as Sirenia was laying across wind and tide.

We decided to go and have a look at conditions up at The Rocks.

No better there so turned round to return to the mooring and then there was a pop from astern.

The painter had come loose from the dinghy and 32 was making up river at a rate of knots.

We took chase and caught her before she went ashore.

Fitted a mooring line with a soft eye splice and said nope get out of that.

Saturday morning we went to have a look at conditions over the bar.

Wind against tide but not to bad.

Punched the tide with a good following wind up to the River Ore.

The daughter went below to lay down as she didn't feel well.

Nealy high tide when we got to the Orford Haven buoy.

Followed the Buoys in.

Just getting to the inner buoy and the was a Bang from the dinghy.

32 was of on an independent trip again!

This time the bow fitting had broken off.

Turned back to catch her.

When we did there was no method to fix a rope to her.

Boy friend held on to her whilst we got into the river and found some shelter.

Tried to wake daughter - no movement.

Tried to anchor but could not get it to hold in the shingle bottom with a 2 knot tide running.

Let it drag with the engine in gear ahead whilst we sorted out a tow for 32.

Rope onto the main seat and a flattened out plate shackle screwed down over the rope at the bow.

That sorted we headed up river and picked up a buoy at Orford.

The reason that we had taken 32 along was that we have not found the pipe that joins the inflatable dinghy to its pump.

32 was used for a trip ashore.

Today we had a good trip back with the tide pushing us along, once we had got out of the Ore.

We encountered a 3 to 4 knot flow into the river and had to moter hard against it to get out.

We even had the spinnaker up for a short while.

By the time we had decided to use it and had sorted out the lines etc. and popped it up we where nearly past the Deben entrance.

Had a good lift up river to the mooring from the tide.

Now back home with a longer list of jobs.

Find the air hose for the inflatable.

Find the Radar Reflector

Find the anchor ball and motoring cone

All the above in the Shed some where

Get a new whip for the masthead VHF antenna. We noticed it missing this afternoon. Work out how to replace it.

Take a corkscrew.

Had difficulty opening wine for Saturday evening meal.

Miles this trip 29.4

Miles this year 70.9

Max speed this trip (GPS) 8.9Kts