To sheltered waters

Off the river and into a marina (twice) last weekend. A friend flew over from Portugal to see the boat and we were planning to move into SYH for the winter. Assigned a berth, went and had a look in the dinghy, OK. Motored out to the boat, boarded, slipped mooring and into the berth. Depth 0.4 m under the keel. State of tide? Just past half the ebb, on neeps. Somehow I don't think this is going to work. A few calls to the office. Nowhere else to put us. Oh well, I guess we'll motor up the river to Ipswich Haven then!

So off we went. I actually quite like the Haven. It looked after DW each year she came off the river. Its quicker to get to in the car, and walkable to the train station which helped our friend who was staying on board for a couple of nights before flying home.

All did not go as planned though. We didn't get to motor all the way up the river. The wind was too nice, so we set all sail and glid up to the bridge. Very pleasant indeed and even E liked it, because we didn't have the engine on!

Now how many days have we got left? The boat is off to Cambridge come December, for lots of work.....

4:01 PM - Nov. 7, 2007 - post comment