Another day of strong winds, some sunny spells and a drop or two of drizzle. The gusts that sang through the riggings were more infrequent than yesterday but inshore forecast was predicting occasional force 7. Again i was happy not to be out on the open sea.
Should have been a day of productive boat fiddling, particularly configuring new tarptent but couldn't be arsed, nice thing is, it's up to me :-) Fitted compass finally, was really struggling to work out where to mount it; it needed to be on top of a horizontal surface or stern-ward of a vertical surface. Ended up with it on top of the middle of thwart, not ideal 'cos it'll be in the way. But definitely a move forward to have easily referenced compass. Did some washing and paid marina bill.
I'm moving on tomorrow, ¡yeehah! bin here since Thursday, bonus of this layover is that my cracked forefingers have nearly completely healed up. Forecast winds are very mild, Hartlepool is destination, 25Nm away, i intend to leave at 8am, tide should be with me from 10. So should be a relaxed sail, however; the Boston leg taught me to keep a weather eye out.
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