Our first attempt at Beachy Head

We had a few pleasant few days at Shoreham and a day watching the Brazilian jujitsu tournament in Brighton. Sadly, our son David was not well and did not compete but we still went and supported his Club, which was fun.
On Monday 20th we decided to carry on east; we might have been a bit cagey about depth of water so we delayed until around the 11 o’clock lockout to get going. This left us with insufficient time and tide to carry us around Beachy Head, and, low and behold, the wind had come around to the east (as predicted….. dammitt!!.)
After beating and getting nowhere, my lovely wife suggested we popped back to Brighton for the night and watch what went on. So we turned and had a beautiful run for about 2 hours. Brighton is not the prettiest Marina but the people they are nice. A couple of nights hunkered down and haemorrhaging ££££ (marinas are not cheap in the south) the predictions for the wind all showed the beasterly easterly continuing for a few more days. What to do???
We went ASDA for some essentials then, armed with our little bag of shopping, we drifted into Wetherspoons to have a beer and think about it. We quickly realised that while it taken us a week and a half to get to where we were, we were still only a day sail from home, and with the wind in the east, what could be easier?Read more