04:00 Tide turned, anchor holding, anchor light checked, OK, anchor watch below
05:50 Fine morning, light Westerly breeze
06:20 Anchor light and ball taken in
06:25 Engine start
06:35 Under way by motor
--:-- Motor through moorings at Burnham
07:25 Hoist sails, engine off. Breeze promptly died away to nothing!
07:30 Restart engine, motor sailing
07:55 Sailing, stopped engine
09:45 Just short of Fambridge, start engine and lower sails
10:00 Docked at pontoon, stop engine
Total engine hiurs: 1:40
Filled o/b tank and jerry can at Asda: 16.8ltrs
Cumulative engine hours since last fill: 9:25
Appro. fuel consumption: 1.8ltrs per hour
Very difficuly tacking in light airs - the genoa sheet knots catch on the shrouds even after being served with self amalgamating tape and on occasions the genoa would get between the fore shroud and the cap shroud instead of running around the front of the shrouds and refuse to come out again unless I turned almost downwind to get the wind in the back of it. This really clobbered our VMG and we need to either resolve the problem somehow or refine our technique in some way to improve things
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