Monday 11th October
We got up early to leave Keswick but had a slight problem, the anchor wouldn’t come up. Sue tried motoring to port, then reversing and trying to go to starboard, to no avail. It was time to bring out our secrect weapon, Lydia. Nine meters down, no problem. She disappeared and a minute later surfaced to say “The chain is unhooked from the rock. You can haul anchor now”. With that we were off.
With only 10 knots of wind, the gennaker was the go. By afternoon the 10 knots had subsided to 5, not even keeping the sails up. So we had to motor the remainder to Prudhoe Island (half way to Percy). The south west gave us protection from the swell, so we had a nice night.
In the morning we set off for Percy Island. Out of the shadow of Prudhoe we could tell the wind, although strong enough, was not going to get us to Percy without a lot of tacking. So we returned to the protection of Prudhoe and spent the day exploring.
This morning was going to be the day. The weather report said the winds were in the right direction and were going to start at 7 knots building to 10 by lunchtime and then 15 by afternoon finishing at 20 for the evening. Well, we started with 10knots and after two hours it dropped to 5 and that’s where it stayed.
As if we weren’t going slow enough, Lydia went and jumped off the back of Imagine and hung on to a rope, being dragged along in the water.
So today was another motor job. We were just off Percy when the wind came up (10 knots). We just carried on motoring till we got into Rescue Bay, on the southern side, just in case the northerly winds do eventuate over night.
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