Arose Sunday to another perfect day..... really hot even at 08h00 in the morning.... but again, not a great deal of wind....

Another trip to the chandlery to get a second cable gland to make a neat job of the plotter cables exiting the steering pedestal, and then sat and ate a huge fried breakfast in the cockpit... our new neighbour, a large Broom 42  returned reporting mirror like coinditions, so I finished fitting the plotter... looks great, and seems to work really well....

It was a pig of a job though getting the cable through from the head unti to the GPS aerial.... at least I  now know where the cable runs are!

By 10h30, we decided to go for a sail, so after a visit to the fuel berth to fill her up (at which I was able to calculate the consumption is 2.13nm per litre), we set out through the lock towards the sea again.... much like the previous day, we decided to just potter about... sailed over to Pye end.... over towards Cork Sands Yacht Beacon.... a decent sea breeze had filled in, of about 9 to 10kts, and so we were really enjoying it..... until we passed Landguard point, where the wind vanised, and we started drifting... so the sails were furled, the motor on, and back towards Harwich.... as we again passed Landguard in the opposite direction, the wind reappeared.... either an extremely local effect or coincidence?.... anyway... we then enjoyed a fabulous beat back into Harwich harbour.... tacking 6 or 7 times, and eventually furling the sails around Guard...

It had been truly spectacular weather..... really really hot.... shorts and tee shirts weather, and enough wind at 10kts for it to be enjoyable... it couldn't have been a better first sail for everyone if we had planned it this way!

We waited for 15mins for a lock in, quickly and easily completed, with intelligent use of a boat hook by SWMBO, and then neatly onto our berth....

The general consensus..... we'd done good.... handled the boat well.... and definitely bought the right boat!!!!

Home by 19h30.... a grand weekend.... a little red, a little tired, but very happy