Guy and Sophie come to stay

Been a bit slow writing up the logs – spending too much time out enjoying ourselves or up in Scotland working again (sigh)

Guy and Sophie came to visit a few weeks back, so we naturally dragged them along (not too reluctantly) for a trip aboard Ty Dewi. We spent the first part of Saturday down at a kid’s fair in Cambridge before heading over to the boat mid-afternoon and sailing off to our favourite anchorage in the Walton Backwaters.

Guy steered us most of the way, clearly enjoying the experience. However, I really must learn to pay more attention to the tides on this coast, for as we sailed down the channel into the bay, there is a shoal patch and it was full low water – in fact the lowest tide of the year! We bumped the muddy bottom a few times but I knew this was the shallowest bit and we carved out own little gully through the unseen mud, leaving some crabs swearing in our wake before making it safely to Hamford Water

With an easterly breeze blowing, the usual anchorage is a little exposed, but at low water there is no way we could get into the more sheltered channels. With the wind forecast to ease off overnight, and Ty Dewi being no lightweight, the choppy water wasn’t a problem and we fetched up to our anchor nicely and opened the wine.

The next day was sunny and warm, so we headed over to the beach and spent a happy morning playing in the sand, walking on the dunes and generally pottering. Very nice. Homeward bound in the mid-afternoon, a troublefree trip and easy mooring marked the end of another happy weekend on the water.