Grabbed a couple of days on the boat on the pretext of tidying up after Adam's trip....
Motored down to East Head for lunch and then had a superb sail up to Emsworth and back. It was obviously Shrimper week in the harbour, I passed 6 or 7 going each way. They must have been confused as they obviously assumed I was part of their rally.
Down at East Head overnight - watched a seal catch and eat his supper lying on his back before settling down to a quiet night. It is amazing how quiet it is midweek.
Woke up the next morning to glorious sunshine and decided to sail up to Northney, garb a pasty from the garage and then have a leisurely sail back up to the marina.
The houses and the pubs at the top of the harbour looked lovely, not so good at Northney marina though. Called them on VHF - no response, phoned them up and they wouldn't let me tie up for 2o minutes whilst I visited the garage to get some supplies. They wanted to charge me short term berthing and put me in a empty slot even though I only wanted to nip and get a pasty and some milk - I ask you......
I explored the top end of the harbour and could see the garage 50 yds from the bridge but on a falling tide the water there disappears very rapidly so I played safe and went off back down the channel.
All in all, apart from the inflexibility of Northney, it was a lovely couple of days.
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