We'd decided that we'd take the late tide back to Shotkey on Sunday evening... it meant that we'd get the whole of Sunday in Burnham.... get a night sail back, and still be able to get away to home at a sensible time on Monday.... so about 21h00, we slipped our mooring and crept off into the dark...Leaving Burnham in the dark is great.... a lot easier than daylight... the lights are more obvious, and so we took a little bit of a plug against the tide (and wind surprise surprise!), and made our way out towards No.6 and Whittaker, where we truned left towards the Wallet spitway, which was very easy in the dark... the lights stand out brilliantly.... and then into the Wallet.... the tide turned to give us a push up the Wallet, and I stayed well offshore to avoid the worst of the pots... and we soon saw Walton headland appear....M had fallen asleep in the cockpit although he'd fought valiantly to stay awake as he was really excited about his first proper night passage where he was allowed to stay up!Harwich was a blaze of light, but i've done it enough times that it is now quite easy, and soon enough we were radioing Shotkey to be let in through the lock....We'd motored the whole way with virtually no wind... it had literally fallen to zero knots by the time we rounded Walton, so we had it quite easy....Into our berth and tied up with the engine off by 02h00....What a fabulous fortnight.... we'd had a great time despite the lack of sailing.... but thats Holland two years in a row.... god knows where we'll go next year!
Miles logged 36nm
Miles this trip 333nm
Miles this season 960nm
Miles since this blog started 2,757nm
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