Saturday 8 June 2019

I took over being on watch at midnight. We had the large catamaran in front, and another yacht now close behind. The latter had arrived quite late, when the wind had already gone north, but we had yet to swing right round on the anchor. They had allowed what seemed quite a reasonable space at the time. I watched us gradually slip back, as we settled to the opposite side of our anchor, the extent of the chain meaning, we had moved about 30 metres. We changed watch at 2.00 am. During Steve’s watch we had dropped back to only about 10 metres from the boat behind and, fortunately, the skipper came on deck to check his mooring and immediately realised he was too close, so first put out more chain, but then lifted and moved further away. All this going on in pitch black, as there were no lights on the shore. It was a beautifully clear night and we could enjoy the carpet of stars above us. I had one more watch from 5am to 7am, when daylight had broken and we were sufficiently happy that we were not slipping that we allowed ourselves a couple of hours more of sleep. To be fair the catamaran skipper had appeared on deck a couple of times at midnight and 1 am, but I wonder if he realised how much concern his innocent mooring had caused us. Of course, the lack of incident, would make him feel vindicated in his action.

I’m sure you wont be surprised that, after such a night, we’ve had a lazy day, but its been very useful to catch up with administration and correspondence.

Distance covered today	0	nautical miles
Trip distance covered	830	nautical miles
Distance covered 2019	830	nautical miles
Tricia (and Steve)