Charlies Challenge (umbrella of brain tumour research). He is a really
interesting guy and quite a character! He has also helped us
previously by putting us in touch with potential sponsors.
The sail today was really good, dead down wind so we went the whole
way without putting the main up! Although we didn't drop much below
6.5 kts which isn't bad for one sail!
After selsey bill a bit of a following sea developed but the new sea
cock on the exhaust did it's thing and we had no problems starting the
engine to come in!
The marina at Brighton is surrounded by a concrete sea wall which
reflects incoming waves creating quite a confused and choppy sea near
by. The entrance faces south east and to get a good view of anything
coming out you have to approach very wide when coming from the west.
In these conditions you are left side on to the waves and reflected
waves, until you are sheltered by the wall. It's a short period of
pain and nigel says you soon get used to it. I imagine it can get
fairly nasty in "bigger" weather though.
Thank you again to premier marinas for your support of our challenge.
I remember all the concrete caissons for the marina wall being lowered into the sea. I used to watch the work from my room in Eastern Terrace when I was at college in Brighton (1972?) Mum x
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