Another gentle day sail...

19 nautical miles

The day started early... well... early for me, at 7:15 picking up Tim, Sidney and Jacob and going to the marina. We needed to move the boat to a new berth. Hopefully this will be our permanent berth. If you zoom in on the map above you will see we left from one berth and returned to a different one. That's not totally correct, it's just we didn't do a spot location at the new berth before we left.

Anyhow, the new berth is at 90 degrees to the old one, which means that prevailing winds will now be on our beam instead of our bow. We'll have to wait and see how this affects us. Early in the morning, before the wind gets up is the best time for manoeuvring round the marina, so we tried both a bow to and stern too mooring. It's nothing like as easy to get in and out of this new berth, but no doubt it will become 'home' as we get used to it.

Sidney didn't come with us for the day but a business client of Tim's called Vladimir from Russia joined us for the day.

Some sailors like to tell of their horror stories. We like the nice days sailing and this was one of the best. 7-9 knots in the morning and 15-20 knots in the afternoon. Gentle and just the thing to unwind and the end of a hard week.

And... a great lunch out in the yacht near Cape Pila. What more could you want?