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2022 - Fifth Leg & Conclusion - Gosport to Ramsgate

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   Around Britain – Year 3 – Portishead to Ramsgate – 2022. Day 43 – 13 th  July – Gosport to Brighton/Shoreham – 42 miles After a two night stay in Gosport and a ferry crossing to Portsmouth and Southsea it was time for ‘Plan A’.  This was the relatively long passage of 42 miles to Brighton, or just over eight hours for us.  The route through the Looe Channel, on the East of the Solent approaches to save going right out to sea to navigate past the Boulder Bank, requires passage through the two buoys with the tide as it can reach over three knots and can be very ‘lumpy’.  This would mean an early start of 06:00 at the latest to make sure of this.  We were ready to go and duly left our mooring at 05:35. It was a gorgeous morning with light airs from the North which would steadily increase during the day and gave us a lovely day’s sailing. Leaving Portsmouth and the Solent behind We had just got past Shoreham when things started to go wrong.  Julia phoned Brighton and we were told th
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2022 Fourth Leg - Weymouth to Gosport

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  Around Britain – Year 3 – Portishead to Ramsgate – 2022. Day 34 – 4 th July – Weymouth to Poole – 30 miles We stayed in Weymouth for 3 days and met up with Julia’s friends Peter and Barbara who were staying in a hotel for the weekend.   As they had a car, we were able to take a trip to Portland to have a look at the famous Portland Race form above.   You certainly wouldn’t want to sail through it as one sailing boat was doing and getting bashed about all over the place.   The reason for trying to go as close to the Bill as possible became so much clearer from above and the waters to the East were totally smooth.             A boat called Caveman rafted to us for a couple of nights.   They were heading to the Scilly Isles.   He had been to sea as an Engineer also so you can imagine all the Lamp Swinging that took place.             The passage from Weymouth to Poole is fairly-straight forward with just the Lulworth Firing Range to be clear of if they are firing, they were the d
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