Solo cruise to Littlehampton

[Andre]

Saturday was a good day so a blast to Littlehampton via the Looe Channel was called for.

here is a short ( 4 min ) clip from my GoPro. Enjoy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HG130zKpMvc&t=13s

The sea conditions were great and allowed me to maintain a good cruising speed of 32/34 knots

[WhiteShark]

Looks like a fantastic day out ! I was moving house otherwise would have been out there with you. Weather for this weekend not looking nearly so benign... :-(

[Andre]

Time to take "Grey Mist" back to Southampton Dry Stack

Saturday looks good for the tides and weather

[Andre]

Originally Posted by Andre

Time to take "Grey Mist" back to Southampton Dry Stack

Saturday looks good for the tides and weather

Grey Mist is now back at Southampton Dry Stack

I left Littlehampton at 11:15 and arrived to the SDS at 1:30. In total 41.4Nm

According to my Vessel Viewer
Average speed 17.8 knots
max speed 38 knots
Fuel used 59.9 ltr

I had my GoPro on so will tomorrow do some editing

The passage was OK up to the entrance of the Looe channel where my speed dropped to 10 knots . A head on wind all the time but my console gives me a very good shelter as you do not even feel the wind. As usual a rather lumpy crossing . Once I got to the forts my speed increased to 30 knots + all the way to the Southampton VTS

Sunshine all the way.

[Andre]

This is the first of two GoPro clips. This short one was taken as I just entered the Solent and the sea conditions allowed more speed

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90AX6vUxC1s

[Andre]

enjoy Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQLBzmfk3mA&t=32s

[Andre]

and Part 2

I tried to make them short not too get bored too quickly

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFMd1RY0n6I

[Andre]

and Part 3 and the battery went dead but I did not know that till I got to the Dry Stack

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvVFtlcb7Fg

All in all it was a very good passage. Very enjoyable for this time of the year:thumbs