Shakedown cruise – Saturday, 10 May – Portsmouth to The Folly, Cowes.

We woke up late and ditched our plan to sail to Chichester harbour as it would have been directly upwind and hard work so bailed out and decided to go downwind to Cowes and up the Medina to the Folly Inn. We were soon out of Portsmouth harbour and broad reached across the eastern Solent

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Shakedown cruise – Thursday, 8 May – Bembridge to Portsmouth

Left Bembridge at more or less high tide tide to cross over to Portsmouth so that Anne could catch the train to London for babysitting duties on Friday. The wind was pretty much “on the nose” so we motored across and had no problems mooring up in Royal Clarence marina. Anne had booked ahead and

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