Got off the shore at Mablethorpe easily with an off shore wind and the boat floating away about 30 minutes before high tide, then discovered that the centreboard was jammed (up) by the gritty Mablethorpe sand.
Sailing up the coast, with strong wind from the side was doable, but going up through mouth of the Humber in lighter wind was frustrating so I resorted to engine. Saw a seals head poke up several times looking at us, it felt like it was just one animal playing hide and sèèk. While dropping off my crew mate Mark I noticed that the tiller extention universal joint is nearly broken , so that makes three things that I need to fix before moving on; tiller uj, centreboard and reefing cringle so I might be spending a bit of time at Tetney which is an anchorage that dries out (onto hard sand apparently) and floods at high tide. The forecast is for the weather spell to break.
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