Chichester Harbour at last

Last weekend we set off from Newhaven aiming for Sparkes Marina, Chichester Harbour. It was a long trip, with good wind at the start, and we we flying along.



"Goodbye Newhaven!"



What is this? it's about 5 miles south of Littlehampton

Somewhere south of Worthing, John began to go quiet, and he remained  "green" for the rest of the 10 hour journey. As a result, we (I) decided to keep going to Bembridge instead of fighting the adverse tide and wind.
It was very busy being the day of The Round The Island Race. so we rafted up to a line of five. Our first rafting up experience: learning that beginners pick the easiest point to tie up to, which is the one furthest from the pontoon!

Next day we had a lovely easy sail into Chichester and found our mooring up the Mengham Rithe channel. In familiar style, we ran out of water because we overshot our mooring and had to hang around the bows of our Catamaran neighbour untill we could pick up our buoy.

This weekend, we returned with dinghy and outboard in the van and met up with other Tomahawk Owners for the TOA Rally.




John's thinking, "how do you do that with your hands, Paul?"

The first evening, we managed to keep pace with the drinkiing, but after the second day we fell by the wayside and had an early night after a less than adequate meal at The Piranha Bar.



Mahaskah on a pontoon