I am the Chairman of Cambridge Car Club.(CCC)

One of our fellow Car Clubs runs a Stages Rally in the Bradwell area.

The Essex Charity Stages.

The event finishes at Bradwell Marina.

CCC Have for many years helped marshal the event.

I decided that it would be good to travel to a motorsport event by boat.

So the plan was to sail to Bradwell from The Deben on Saturday, Officiate on the event Sunday asn sail back on Monday.

I mentioned this plan on the YBW.com forum and some others decided to come along.

We left the Deben on the evening tide on Friday evening due to wanting to make the most of the rising tide on Saturday and spent another rolly night at Halfpenny pier, Harwich.

Away at 8:00 on Saturday with a stiff beat all the way to the Blackwater.

As we left Hawich our friends in Morgana were spotted heading in the same direction.

They got there well before us but had motor sailed.

During the afternoon others sailed / motored in to join asn some came by car.

Jim brought Full Circle round from the Crouch single handed.

He then set to and cooked Curry for all present (17 in total!)

And a lovely curry it was.

Timing of the event on Sunday was talked about.

The other sailors decided that with the strong wind forecast and the fact that by the time that we would be back from marshaling the event it would be low tide thay would head for home instead of coming to the event.

Monday's sail home was interesting.

It was a dead run with a F5/6 and wind against tide making for a very rolly ride.

We had the Genoa poled out and a preventer on the main with 1 reef in.

My crew Tim is inexperienced and did in feel confident to helm in those conditions so I had the tiller all the way home.

I was quite worn out by the time we picked up the mooring.

Tim drove us back to Cambridge.