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Friday 25 June 2010

Leg 5 underway

The final leg to Plymouth is underway. As we left the marina at Lowestoft,
we once again crossed paths with Richard House Hospice, who unfortunately
had suffered light winds in the North Sea and arrived almost out of food &
water.

As we restarted, a Class 4 yacht Suroma was finishing. And we were somewhat
surprised when the club rib rushed out to welcome us into Lowestoft. Whilst
we would have liked to stay and enjoy the hospitality for another two days,
both Trevor and I really would like to get to Plymouth and the finish.

Tonight looks like it might be a long night as we navigate our way carefully
across the Thames Estuary with its busy shipping lanes, sand banks and wind
farms. We are sailing along nicely under spinnaker with 8kts of breeze,
good visibility, the tide under us and doing 8kts over the ground. We are
hoping that this breeze will hold up for the night so we can get to Dover
before the tide turns against us at midday tomorrow.

Richard & Trevor

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