Monday 29th May, rest day at Tetney Haven

Poked my head outside the tent this morning and it was grey, cold, windy and drizzly, a bank holiday Monday in Cleethorpes. The rest of the day continued in the same vein - perfect day for staying under cover, keeping warm and toasty eating lots of grub. I'm largely eating boil in the bag camping food. Today's flavours were; full breakfast, chili con carne with rice and rice puddings. Also made some instant cheese 'n onion mash and finally made use of the fresh onion that i've been carting around by chopping half of it up to mix in.

Stuck my head out for a second time when the tide had receded and took some pictures of oyster catchers, boats and sand fort, then noticed that I had come to rest two metres or so from a precipice!

Precipitous Mooring


Listened to a couple of radio programs and there are lots of natural noises; surf, and every so often the wind would play in the rigging making an aeolian harp sound that was a bit like Tibeatan throat singing. Then there is a deep gurgling sound when there are wavelets and the tide comes in or out under the boat. It's a pretty tranquil spot even when the wind is coming from the north-east.

Nearby boaties and Haile sand fort (is that Marky-Boy's footprints?)

When The tide came in again in the evening I moved a bit further inland, I'll be aground longer and be able to access the land, i'll also be more exposed to grockles.

I did very little productive today, fiddled about with the tarp/tent a bit so it's a bit more
resistant to rain and wind

Tech update

So far the solar power has worked great, i've got a marine panel the lead of which goes through a waterproof gland into the waterproof forrard hatch to a power controller and LiFePO4 battery. The tablet that i was hoping to use for navigation is not really practical, in it's waterproof bag, when wet, touching the screen doesn't work. S'pose I could use it uninteractively. I also have nav software on my waterproof 'phone which works much better plus has a built in compass, needs to be tied on tho'.

Drier weather forecast for tomorrow, hopefully do some boat fiddling and get on the trail of a sail loft/sail maker.