Summer Weekend - the photos

Not a vast quantity of pics but here goes ...

We set off from Burnham in company with Miracalee and did something Brigantia rarely does, sailed past another yacht ...










... until they stopped messing about and unfurled their genoa and sailed right back past us again! :)






Pretty sure that's Creeksailor and Shoal Waters messing about inshore. Saw him again later off St. Peters on the Wall heading back into the Blackwater - we have to go the long way via the Spitway but with her centreboard and extreme shoal draught the aptly named Shoal Waters can sail across a dewy meadow!

A selection of atmospheric photos taken during several walks around the salt marshes ...

It is a lovely place with a very special timeless feel to it, I liked it a lot and so did Jane



Our friends on Miracalee departed with the tide on Sunday morning














Whilst we took a walk along the public footpath out to Trinity, the former Channel lightship now used as a floating base for the Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust.

We had a damn good look at the moorings on the Saltings because by now discussions were afoot about a possible move to Tollesbury at some point in the future. Beer intervened at this point and there were no more photos taken until ...

We headed for home base on the Monday. Despite it being a fine and sunny day in July, it was still chilly enough in the stiff Westerly breeze to make a fleece a necessity.

The Ice Queen, of course, needed several layers despite it being mid-summer!

 We were fascinated by the approach of a gaggle of Police craft.

Alert IV accompanied by no fewer than three RIBs. They must have been on their way too or back from an operation of some sort.

Happy to be approached by one of the RIBs and have a chat with the officer in the bow, it's good for security and safety that they are out there keeping an eye on the waters we sail in

 The Whitaker Beacon, which stayed pretty much in the same relative position for tack after tack after tack is we gradually clawed our way to windward against a foul tide.

At least with her new sails Brigantia can now make progress in such circumstances!

 More ships to be seen in the approaches to the Crouch this year. Two in one day even!












The Big Bang Brigade were at it again on Shoeburyness Ranges.

God knows what they were setting off but there'd be a pillar of black smoke, a huge bang a few seconds later and then a plume of residual white smoke that burned all afternoon

They set them off at intervals of a couple of hours or so and it made I jump every single time!



The full album can be viewed at 2013 Tollesbury Weekend Album