Sailing!

I’m still on a high at the moment having just got back from sailing Wazobia, my parents new Beneteau Oceanis 40 on its maiden voyage from the Hamble, near Southampton to Falmouth, in Cornwall.

The weather could not really have been much better – sailing under beautiful star lit skies and scorching sun during the day – although a bit more wind would have been nice as we had to motor-sail for a fair bit.

We left Hamble marina shortly after 1 o’clock in the morning after about an hours sleep (probably shouldn’t have spent so long in the pub!), arriving at Dartmouth at about 1530 for a short stopover, another trip to the pub and a couple of hours sleep before leaving for Falmouth at 0130, arriving at our destination for mid-day.

It was a fairly eventful journey too, what with encountering a surfaced submarine surfacing near Plymouth and then Dolphins escorting us in to Falmouth on the second leg. There are photo’s as usual, which can be found here. (No photo’s of the submarine though as this happened at about 4am under darkness).