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Having given us a lift, with all our kit, back in 2018, when we started our ‘official’ circumnavigation from Southwold, Matt now helped to take Avalon to her berth for the next few months. We don’t plan to return to Southwold with Avalon until next year.
The channel to Walton and Frinton Yacht Club and the Yacht Basin (known as the Pond), dries at low tide, so we timed our entrance carefully.
Sorting out the fenders.
Used as self-catering accommodation, The Lady of the Twizzle is where we held our Barts’ Nurses reunion last year.
It was only about half an hour before high tide, but the channel was still quite shallow at about 2.5 metres.
Because the channel is so shallow, most of the traffic, is around high tide. We followed one yacht in, and passed two other exiting.
There is a cill at the entrance to the pond, which keeps the marina water at a certain level, and when there is sufficient depth, a ‘gate’ or warning sign drops.
Plenty of depth, but it still seemed narrow coming through!
A low, wobbly pontoon, but a cosy spot for Avalon….
…with Alf on Alchemist as a neighbour.
If the leaks on Avalon hadn’t been enough this year, we returned home to a leak in our roof too. A roofer is needed for that, but Kevin is looking forward to ‘fettling’ (he loves the word) Avalon over the winter, with the bilge pump being the first job.
Just on the other side of the cill, Petra is renovating an old lifeboat (Lifeboat Hygge). She and a friend plan to motor around the UK in it next year.
Of course, a Guinness is always needed after a successful transit!
N-004 has been named Nore by Ireland Seal Rescue. The River Nore has its source in Tipperary and, along with the Rivers Suir and Barrow, runs into Waterford. The Nore, however, is also a sandbank in the Thames Estuary.
Much of this trip we have been reminiscing about a dear friend, VK, who passed away in July. She loved sailing on our ‘yoghurt’, as she called it, and was a brilliant helm.
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