UK Circumnavigation

Jenny's two months of sailing, starting at Suffolk Yacht Harbour and heading north to the Caledonian Canal and eventually all the way around the UK ( weather permitting ). I will be meeting friends on route who will share the sailing. Jenny's homepage http://www.jsquared.co.uk/jennyb and the link to Serenity http://www.yacht-serenity.org.uk/

Monday, 2 June 2008

Wells on Sea


We travelled from Lowestoft to Wells on Sea starting at 05:00 to get to Wells for high tide. It was an eventful journey, passing scroby sands and all the wind turbines off of Great Yarmouth, then a mayday from a 121MHz PLB on our route. Wells bar was exciting and choppy but we followed a local boat in and arrived safely. Wells is beautiful, with a friendly harbourmaster and good facilities. After talking to the harbourmaster, he recomended avoiding Kings Lynn due to the tidal complexities, and going straight for Grimsby on Tuesday. So we have a whole day in Wells, Jennifer will go home and Bernie will join me.



Jennifer adds:
I missed all the excitement of the distress call. It was my turn to sleep, and I was dead to the world.

But I did see a seal!

No wind still, so we did the entire journey by engine again :-(


posted by Jenny Bailey @ 09:36  

1 Comments:

  • At 3 June 2008 at 10:10 , Blogger Paul said...

    Jennifer: I'll see your seal and raise you a porpoise. We saw one last year on the Blackwater (first time I've ever seen a Cetatian on the east coast).

    Last night's inshore forecast was for decent winds today so looks like Bernie's going to get to sail. Hope you have better luck on your next leg (although you'll probably beating all the way up Loch Ness so you may be grateful for the engine then).

     

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