Near the end now, and becoming quite focused on getting home ... because there's so much to do (Wimbledon as well as cleaning the house, reading the vast pile of post and taking a flame-thrower to the garden). We had thought about having a day off in Dover, but the forecast was for a quiet day weather-wise so it seemed a good chance to make the short trip (17 miles) to Ramsgate - in strong winds the sea can get very lumpy around here (as we may have reported before).
It only took 2.5 hours to motor up in almost no wind with lots of tide behind us. Uneventful until entering Ramsgate Harbour, where the cross tide kicked up a very nasty chop as we crabbed in through the entrance.
This evening we have spent a huge amount of time researching the tidal atlases and tables, trying to find a better way of getting from Ramsgate to Gillingham (timing that is, not dragging the boat over the fields), but there's no way to avoid starting out into a foul tide which potentially means lumpy seas off N Foreland ... oh well.
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