Dan and Rebecca joined us as planned in Portsmouth and we set off again on the Sunday evening for the short hop to Chichester Harbour. There we anchored for the night at East Head and were treated to a spectacular sunset over the still water. Nights at anchor are often restless for me as I worry about the possibility of the anchor dragging, but on this occasion I slept well and awoke early and in time to witness another treat. This time, a gorgeous sunrise. Oddly this was from the same relative direction as the boat had swung around her anchor in the night!
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| Sunset at East Head |
We crept out of Chichester Harbour at low water and headed up Channel to Brighton. We had plenty of time and so decided to try our hand at trolling for mackerel. This worked very well and we caught eight medium sized fish in fairly short order. Later Mike baked these with potatoes and lemon to make a delicious one-pot supper.
At Brighton I was delighted to meet up with an old friend Martin who is currently single-handedly bringing his big catamaran up from Brittany to the East Coast. I witnessed a masterly display of boat handling as he parked this massive craft in a small marina berth. Well done sir!
Annoyingly we discovered the next morning that Brighton Marina is not dredged to the advertised depth and we were consequently two hours late in leaving. This was significant for tidal reasons although we were just in time to 'surf' the tidal surge most of the way to Dover.
We intend one more stop (Ramsgate) and to be back at Ipswich around mid-day on Thursday.
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