Summary: Queenborough to Dover. Total 51.8 miles in 6 hours and 40 minutes. Mainly downwind with winds varying between 15 and 34 knots. We left Queenborough just after 4.30am to try and catch the ebb down to North Foreland. Hoisted the main with on reef by Garrison Point and then …
Summary: Limehouse Basin to Queenborough. Left 13:30 and arrived at Queenborough 19:30. 41.3 miles. Wind mostly NW around 4 or 5 occasionally gusting 6. We left Limehouse around 1.30pm after the engineer had fixed the ignition switch. Had a nice run down the Thames and hoisted full sail shortly after …
Summary: 81.4 miles in eleven and three quarter hours. Pyefleet to Limehouse Basin in London. Over 8 hours of sailing – generally fast though the wind started to die around lunch time, so we motored the rest of the way up the Thames. After a not very peaceful wind over …