We're off again!

We had a rather quick turn around in Ipswitch. Yesterday turned out to be a quite a busy day. We had a day of sailing with guests of Skandia, but unfortunately there wasn’t much wind at all, so this ended up being a rather gentle cruise up and down the Orwell River. This did give us a good chance to appreciate the beauty of the river banks though. We did also manage to get Scarlet out of her rather tight berth without any problems, and with the help of Rob and some of the guys at Fox’s who are all pretty skilled at moving boats around tight corners with large boat hooks.
Our new crew arrived in the late afternoon, ready for the next leg. We had a brilliant reception, with Peter Cazalet organising a fantastic fundraising evening called Scarlet at Home. Ellen came down to open up the new Chandlery at Fox’s and stayed on for the evening. Lizzy, Larvell and Luke all did fantastic TV interviews, and of course Big Dan was his usual brilliant self. A very big thanks to Peter for all his efforts organizing last night – we all had a great time!
Fox’s were down early this morning to help us out with a few maintenance issues. It really was good to have someone come on board and sort a couple things out for us, just one less thing for us to worry about when we had such a short turn around. I really do appreciate the help from them and thank you to Giles for organizing this!
On board this week we have Lizzy, Luke, Larvell and our two volunteers for the week are Lauren Hall and Annelise Hagan, who both helped us out rather last minute. We’ve had a rather relaxed and quiet day, with a short passage back down the river and back to Walton Backwaters. Not a cloud in the sky and a solid 10 to 15kts gave us a bit of good sailing, and hopefully we should be in for a couple more days of great sailing. We’re anchored in the same spot as before and have just watched the most beautiful sunset, with silhouettes of the other travelling yachts on anchor all around. It’s an early start tomorrow morning as we’re catching the early tide to help us up the coast to Lowestoft (5am start), but the forecast looks good and hopefully we’ll get to appreciate a proper sunrise!
From a rather quiet and peaceful Scarlet, good night!