Time to slip the lines for the West Country, goodbye Hamble thanks for having us but Brixham is calling. We decided to sail through the night as busy social lives and work schedule were preventing us from committing to a whole weekend. Saturday at 20.00 we sailed out of Southampton Water, into the Solent and through the Needles Channel. Night fell and it was a dark night, we hoisted the sails and settled down for 15hrs and 100 miles due west.
A NW of about 15 knots and neap tide made for a pleasant close reach along the Jurassic Coast, Mr Blue Sky heeled over, stretched her cloth and cut through the black night at 9 + knots, seeing us to Portland Bill at slack water. Dawn brought an appropriate blue sky in Lyme Bay, with Hendrix close on our stern we eased the main sheet and snoozed the final fetch into Torbay.As had happened so many times before during our passage from the Baltic, the wind deserted us so the iron sail was cranked up to finish the final leg.
Sue had drawn the short straw and had driven down to Brixham from Hamble with Jim & Taff, as we entered Brixham Harbour at 10.00h on Sunday morning a welcoming committee was waiting on the pontoon.
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Its good to be back, wonder where we'll go next.