Lyme Bay

Despite the getting up at the crack of today, today we both feel amazing. It feels so good to be out of the marina, even though we are only a few miles away the voyage has started and its feels soo good to have finished working!

There was not much wind today so we motor most of the way. Sym decides to go through the race, south of Portland Bill. It is worth mentioning that at the time we are aproaching was the perfect time accoring to the tides but "Jesus christ" it was very scary.We were all over the shop and i started to sweat a bit. I would not want to test this piece of water out when theres a bit of wind and tide going on.NOT RECOMMENDED!!

We catch five makeral on this trip and the cats absolutely love it. This is the second night we ve given them fresh makeral. We had to lock the fat cat Wolverine in the bedroom so Shackles could get her fair share.

The pusses spend alot of time sleeping but im sure ( well hopefully ) they will get used to it!!

Thw wind increases to force seven ( to Lori this means about 30 0dd knots ) and we get into Brixham earlier than expected. We spend the nezt day or so chiling out and reading books, getting used to this cruising life style, WE LOVE IT!

The day we leave Gosport and set sail

After three years of preparation we are finally ready to leave Gosport marina. We wake early in the morning so we can get a early start but as usual Gosport Marina were lazy pieces of work and did not get their arse into gear till about 10am to get to the fuel pontoon.
Anyway we finally leave on a beautiful day and head for the Anchorage Lulworth Cove ( which is possibly the worst anchorage we have ever been to in our whole 4 years of sailing)

I am so nervous that i smoked 8 fags in half and hour waiting by the fuel poontoon.
It was a wicked fast sail and Quartermoon hit her record speed of 9.3 knots fully loaded with water and fuel, which is pretty quick for her.
Any person reading this we can recommed never to go to Lulworth Cove. The weather was probably as settled as you will ever get, but by god it was so rolly. We woke up at 5 am in the morning after a terrible night sleep and left in the dark cos we could not stand it a moment longer!! Cant wait to get to warmer climates, ROCK ON !!