Hi everyone,
Yesterday morning we returned to Gosport, motor-sailing in light winds. This was the last leg of our south-west coast cruise which lasted for 55 days. More stats later, but first a description of our time at Newtown River.
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| Newtown River sunset |
We spent 5 nights anchored at Newtown River. We arrived at neap tides and had plenty of depth. For our last two nights we moved about 30m to ensure we stayed afloat as the low tides got lower. The river is very peaceful at night. During the day many vessels come and go, making the anchorage quite busy.
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| Looking SE over the mud flats |
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| Looking S towards the Solent |
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| William the seal |
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| Misty dawn |
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| Feed me or I'll eat your dinghy |
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| High tide exploring |
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| The landing |
Our passage back to Gosport was an 11nm motor-sail in light winds. The track and graphs are below. The graphs show the strength of the tidal currents in the Solent.
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| Zen Again track |
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| Zen Again graphs |
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| Reaching sheet on the new Yankee |
During our 55 day cruise of the south-west we logged 457nm, ran the engine for 67 hours (about 1/3 of that charging batteries) and visited 21 locations. We stayed in 2 marinas, on 1 pontoon, on 4 swinging moorings and anchored at 14 locations. We particularly enjoyed anchoring at the top of rivers, surrounded by farm and woodland.
The only failures we had were the engine overheating at the Needles and the fridge breaking down. The fridge has been running pretty much continuously for 5 years so no complaints there. We spent the last two weeks fridge-less but it's a good cool box and we had plenty of UHT milk and canned food aboard. The successes were the AutoProp propeller, the WindPilot vane gear, the new Yankee headsail and adding SignalK to our electronics system.
Here's our overall track for the 55 days...
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| Zen Again South-West Coastal Cruise Track |
On arrival back in Gosport we gave the boat a good wash, filled our water tanks, exchanged a propane cylinder and filled our diesel jerry cans. Zen Again's ready for more!
Trust all's well where you are!
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