Preparing the Channel crossing

On Friday morning, we first leave Michaels and Susannes rental car in the harbour and we take a quick sightseeing tour of the town as we go shopping food for the next week. I enjoyed the Shamrock Quay stay but now it is time to move on. After filling up diesel, we continued out to Isle of Wight where we plan to stay the evening before we cross the channel. A very undramatic transport sail and we time the tidal currents right in the Solent so we arrive on the afternoon to Yarmouth at the western tip of Isle of Wight.

Yarmouth was another pleasant experience. This was a nice little town, a well-run marina. In the evening, we went to On the Rocks that turned out to serve high-class food on hot stones. We even managed to buy the delicious Isle of Wight Blue cheese that we had at Quay Fifteen and that can only be bought on the island. Early evening as we set the alarmclocks at 4:30 to be able to match the tidal gates.