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| Leaving the Tyne |
Great having David on board, excellent company and with 3 people we have 2 hours on and 4 hours off. Once again it's just a question of letting 'autie' the autohelm do the steering while we watch out for pot buoys and other boats.
Early on any possible boredom vanished with the arrival of more dolphins. They only stayed half an hour this time, there seemed to be a bigger pod perhaps 400 meters away, and a few came to play with us, including 2 baby ones shadowing exactly the movements of their parent - we wondered if we were a learning exercise as in "this is how you surf a boat". |
| Just under the surface |
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| parent and offspring |
The extra 'off' time has been well used to passage plan for tomorrow, wherein we discovered that to get into Grimsby Marina we have to be there no later than 2 hours after High Water ... and that means a 5am start from Scarborough. As I write this at 1630 we are passing the high cliffs south of Whitby and about 13 miles from Scarborough. We are going to get there about low tide which should make entering the harbour interesting, according to the harbourmaster there. As with most harbours, there's a shallow bar just outside which often changes precise position and depth month by month. Harbourmaster advice is very useful. We have just had a strategy discussion and decided we'll get on down there, but may then drift about and have our dinner at sea, and go in when there's a bit more water - at least if we touch bottom then we only have to wait 10 mins for the tide to lift us off.
Other than that, an uneventful day so far - to the extent that a silver object in the water caused us to detour to inspect ... could it be a lilo with someone clinging on (4 miles off the coast) ... no, it was a deflated balloon. Oh and we just saw a seal - however seals hardly even get us on deck these days.
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