Can it really be that we're leaving the day after tomorrow. I don't think it will seem real until we exit the lock at Gillingham Marina - there is so much land stuff going on, the house is upside down with projects, there's work stuff and family. Will we really cut loose? I suppose the lure of technology is that don't have to, entirely, although experience suggests that getting online can be a flakey business, and it ain't gonna happen in the middle of the southern North Sea.
We've been to the boat today, doing some last checks. She's ready - far better prepared than we are in fact. Now Lesley is frantically packing, as she is away working all day tomorrow in Oxford. Meanwhile I shouldn't be writing this because I have tons of marketing to do for my new book, and many other 'tomorrow tasks' where I have run out of tomorrows ... but I have to think of posterity - these blogs don't write themselves you know (one day, one day). Still, I do have one more tomorrow ... which includes going to Sainsburys for a huge shop that will settle SIRENA IV an inch lower in the water.
Oh yes, and finish the back-up passage plan onto paper charts to go via Ramsgate & Dunkerque Est, in case PassageWeather suggests the North Sea is going to be too bumpy for the two of us to do a 30 hour crossing.
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Monday, 1 August 2016
Thursday, 28 July 2016
Planning
This blog covers Sirena IV's summer cruise in 2016. We're running late this year because we were supporting Lesley's sister Mary through the latter stages of her cancer.
Our plan is to do a circular trip to Amsterdam. Up the East Coast, probably to Harwich (Shotley), then a long run across the North Sea to Ijmuiden and into Amsterdam for a few days, then south through the mast-up canals to pop out somewhere (yeah, loose plan), hop along the coast and then Nieuwpoort or Dunkerque across to Ramsgate and home to Gillingham. Or it might be the other way round, depending on the weather.
We have 4 weeks. It's a bit of a scramble to be ready to go ... as usual with any long holiday, it creates a deadline for all that stuff, boaty and otherwise, that has been drifting along or sitting quietly on the to-do list.
Our plan is to do a circular trip to Amsterdam. Up the East Coast, probably to Harwich (Shotley), then a long run across the North Sea to Ijmuiden and into Amsterdam for a few days, then south through the mast-up canals to pop out somewhere (yeah, loose plan), hop along the coast and then Nieuwpoort or Dunkerque across to Ramsgate and home to Gillingham. Or it might be the other way round, depending on the weather.
We have 4 weeks. It's a bit of a scramble to be ready to go ... as usual with any long holiday, it creates a deadline for all that stuff, boaty and otherwise, that has been drifting along or sitting quietly on the to-do list.
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