{"id":358,"date":"2007-04-03T10:32:04","date_gmt":"2007-04-03T10:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2009-03-27T11:07:59","modified_gmt":"2009-03-27T11:07:59","slug":"under-bare-poles-in-heavy-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"Under bare poles in heavy seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\"><strong>Tuesday the 3<\/strong><sup><strong>rd<\/strong><\/sup><strong> of April<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">A late start predetermined my next destination so with the mainsail reefed; I set off at midday for Hastings in (surprise surprise) blustery North Easterlies. Near Beachy Head conditions could only be described as awful. The wind frequently gusted to Force 7 and I was forced to motor around the headland under bare poles in the short heavy seas. Eileen does not have a spray hood so the water splashing over the deck equated to plenty of water splashing over me, my eyes and inevitably my clothes despite having appropriate foul weather gear.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_365\" style=\"width: 100px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-365\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-365\" title=\"peacock\" src=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/peacock.jpg\" alt=\"Pocket warmer\" width=\"90\" height=\"128\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-365\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Pocket warmer<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I spent the rest of the afternoon alternating between regret for not having brought a ski mask to self congratulation, for having brought my pocket warmer (a must if you do not use LP gas, see <a title=\"Pocket warmer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hakkin.co.jp\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.hakkin.co.jp\/<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">With the safety line securely fastened I motored on, trying without much success to dodge the larger waves, a strategy that did little to ease the rollercoaster ride. Eileen apparently likes to bob around like a cork. Unfortunately this motion was making me decidedly queasy and I was not happy about going below to plot my hourly fixes on the chart. I was also unhappy about approaching Soverign<span lang=\"en-GB\"> Harbour<\/span> by night, especially at low tide, but these concerns abated when it was clear I\u2019d reach the safe water mark just before sunset. The marina office has a camera trained on the buoy marking the entrance channel and I\u2019m sure Eileen made a sorry sight bobbing about there in the twilight. As I called up on the radio the duty officer was quick to give useful directions and before long we had entered Soverign\u2019s impressive lock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_367\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-367\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-367\" title=\"soverign-harbour-lock\" src=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/04\/soverign-harbour-lock.jpg\" alt=\"Lock\" width=\"160\" height=\"214\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lock<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 0in;\">Interestingly, I found another Yarmouth 23 \u201cMoo of Cowes\u201d, berthed in the marina. I had seen her at Yarmouth Marine Services a few weeks earlier so apparently I was not the only one making an early start to the sailing season (unless she had made the trip on a trailer). For those planning to come this way, the marina hosts an excellent web site (see <a title=\"Sovereign Marina\" href=\"http:\/\/www.premiermarinas.com\/pages\/Sovereign_Harbour\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.premiermarinas.com\/pages\/Sovereign_Harbour<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday the 3rd of April A late start predetermined my next destination so with the mainsail reefed; I set off at midday for Hastings in (surprise surprise) blustery North Easterlies. Near Beachy Head conditions could only be described as awful. &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/?p=358\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[99],"tags":[110,21,10,74,111,9,6,112,113,11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":951,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ifno.info\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}