Our decision to delay departure by 24 hours was entirely vindicated. Even though the forecast wind dropped a notch overnight, becoming a do-able if rather brisk Northerly F6 (which would certainly have made for a fast passage!), it was raining hard all night and into the morning.
We'd have had a miserable time of it for the first few hours at least and it's supposed to be fun!
The delay meant we could sort out a few things at our leisure and the time soon passed by. Once the tide turned, we let go from North Fambridge and made a brisk run down to Burnham Yacht Harbour
I think we set a record of 1 hour dead dock to dock! The ebb tide was running unusually hard and with a lazy 1600 RPM on the donk we were at times making over 7 knots over the ground!
We decided to splash out on a night in Burnham Yacht Harbour rather than anchor in the Brankfleet because the overnight forecast was a bit brisk and I felt it might be a bit uncomfortable at anchor. As I write, at just gone 9pm, there's about 4 knots of wind from the West so we probably could have anchored after all but never mind.
We decided to eschew the delights of Burnham town and dine aboard followed by a beer or two
I'll post our passage plan for tomorrow shortly
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