We still have not made it into London. The cruise from Guernsey was mostly pleasant. We filled up with duty free diesel at 68p (about a US Dollar) and left St. Peter Port at about 1400H. We were forecast to have nice SW breeze for 20 hours but it petered out to less than 10 kts after about 2 hours. Still, the weather was clear and we made good progress, especially through the Alderney Race and then jumped on the favourable tidal current from Selsey Bill to Dover.
Dodging ships in the Traffic Separation Scheme was no problem but the ferries coming in and out of Dover were very exciting. Once past Dover we ran out of useful tide and the wind also veered from light SW to F5-6 NW and the last 20 miles from South Foreland to Ramsgate was very slow with a foul current and headwinds we made about 3.5 kts over ground. It began to rain and got very cold and nasty. We had intended to anchor overnight outside Ramsgate and wait for good tide to take us up the Thames Estuary but F6-7 NE were forecast so we went inside the Marina and had a good curry dinner and a good sleep while the wind howled like mad outside.
We had a visit from Ben and Jessica and the babies this afternoon and tomorrow it's the Thames Estuary and up to Limehouse Basin Marina which will be Callisto's home for the next year.
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| Dodging ferries off Dover. These guys go 20+ kts and don't stop for anything |
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| inside Ramsgate marina. Very rough outside |
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| Sceaming through the Alderney Race |
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| Ramsgate. Very peculiar architecture |
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| One of the few clear sunsets we have had in the past few weeks. English channel. |
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| New baby Evie,now 5 months |
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More boat envy. A brand new Amel 55 direct from La Rochelle rafted up to us in Guernesy. This one is the convertible version. Very nice German owners
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