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Are we lost yet
Originally uploaded by Yacht Susannah
We were both quite touched that several friends turned up to see us off and ply us with last minute gifts. Some apparently with ulterior motives – Chris confessed that he had turned up in order to take any mooring lines that we would leave on the berth (we didn’t). Dianne and Graham on White Satin and Chris on Repeecheep accompanied us through the lock and escorted us out into the bay. Angie and Mike on passage back from Ilfracombe aboard Chaos radioed their goodbyes and Cariad, the beautiful Bristol Channel pilot cutter, kept station with us for a time.
With a force 4 on the nose for Lundy we beat on starboard tack out into the bay, just clearing the western end of the Scarweather sands. An ebb tide ensured that by lee bowing we made Ilfracombe on the same tack. Our second tack took us north of Lundy before we tacked again and picked up a buoy for the night at about 7.30p.m. too late to get to the Marisco Tavern for food so we had ‘Cassoulet de Canard’ on board to get into the French mood.
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