Friday 22 May
The tide came in and we soon got off our little mud mound.
We had a nice beat up to the needles with enough wind to fight the tide but once we were through the wind died off. Basically we can sail with 6 knots and over but less than that it’s a bit slow.
Once the wind died to 3 we had to put the motor on so we would make it for dinner at our favourite restaurant there – The Pig on the Beach.
In Studland Bay we hooked a mooring buoy and tidied the boat.
Not everyone is as good a hooker as me and we watched a couple approach too fast and although they hooked the buoy easily, there was too much momentum and they ended up losing the boat hook! David went gallantly to fish it out for them in Zigzags.
Zigzags was strapped to the coach roof on our sail here – so she was ready for gallantry!
It’s lovely here – at less than a mile off you can hear the larks singing over the cliff meadows. Super peaceful, until the jet skis turn up doing mad speeds in a very well signposted 5 knot max area.. I guess they don’t care about the special seaweed and the 3 rare types of seahorse…
