I have framed photo’s of Mum and Dad fastened up. Both in their own ways are integral to this adventure. I also have the lumber ready to make book shelves, and on those shelves will be the sailing books inherited from my maternal Grandfather.

My Grandfather had a Yawl in the years after WWII. She was named Vega, he and my mum sailed her out of the Humber Estuary and along the East Coast.

So, in many ways living on a sailing boat and been at sea runs in the gene’s and blood.

I continue to meet a few locals, particularly the young Polish couple who began running a local coffee shop this summer. I spend more time here than I should, but it makes a nice leg stretch and change of scenery on these wet and windy days.

I now have functioning instruments. With the VHF just to reconnect now and the Wind Sensor to afix at either the main or mizzen mast head - it’s wireless, so no wiring to run…

My intended departure date of this coming Monday is now well and truely off the cards as a deep low comes barrelling through, with winds forecast into the high 40knt’s range. The new estimate is either late Wednesday or preferably Thursday (18th Sept).

Intended passage is either Poole Harbour or Portland, but heading West.