After a great daysail to explore Sark in brilliant sunshine yesterday, we came back to anchor overnight in Havelet bay, just below Castle Cornet at St Peter Port.
The forecast for today remained resolutely unhelpful - a force 4-5 from the north-west so a beat back all the way to Dartmouth making the 70 mile passage a 16 hour proposition at best. So we decided on a 3.00am departure to gain favourable tide westwards along the south coast of Guernsey and had a pretty good sail. We motorsailed for about 4 hours to clear the busy shipping lanes before the wind played ball and shifted to the west so had an excellent close reach back into the Dart, with a few dolphins making a brief appearance alongside.
We're all pretty tired, in spite of having managed some off-watch sleep but it hasn't stopped Dianne from making bread roll for tomorrow's breakfast. Photos to follow tomorrow when we get home.
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