Shoreham to Ramsgate

Wednesday 6th August - Looking at Windguru, the weather was going to close in by the weekend, and remain poor for the next week so I had to decide to either leave Serenity in Shoreham for a week or so, or to make excellent progress in the next two days. This would involve a long trip to Dover with options to stop at Eastbourne or Rye if we became tired.
We called the lock keeper to arrange to lock out at 06:00 in the morning, and sailed into adverse tide for a few miles turning just before Beachy Head.

The sun was out, a really nice change after the rain over the last few days.

Lots of chalky cliffs, smooth sea, wind 9kn on the beam, this is perfect.

Passing Dover the tide was still behind us, so we decided to move on to Ramsgate ( we could have a later start tomorrow ), I called Dover control informing them of our passage past the harbour entrances as I could see fast ferries moving about and threatening to exit. With the wind increasing we arrived at Ramsgate looking for food, but everything seemed to be shut.
We have completed 84nm and were very tired, but home was now only one easy, familiar passage away.