After a week of splashing the boat, loading our stuff on the boat, re-acquainting ourselves with the boat, having new things added to the boat, provisioning the boat and then preparing the boat ... we are on the move again!
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| Victoria Marina |
We arrived from Cherbourg after a seven hour motor through dead calm waters and almost no wind. It was well after dark when we pulled into the harbour and we tied up to the Waiting Pontoon. The marina itself is behind a seawall and is entered by way of sill. The sill maintains enough water in the marina to keep all the vessels there afloat through a potential 9 metre tide cycle. It's a very clever arrangement. It requires all the mariners, both arriving and leaving, to know where we are in the tide cycle and therefore how much water is above the sill.
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| Sill at High Tide ... and at Low Tide. |
Provided you know your vessel's draft and are aware that the sill is 4.2 metres above the low water measurement on the tide cycle, there should be no problem.
When the tide was high enough at 13:00, we tied up in our spot, filled out and submitted the Customs and Immigration form and then were officially allowed to set foot on Guernsey.
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| Dry land! |
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| Pub lunch! Whoo hoo! |
Due to a weather system that set in, we were in Guernsey for four days. After recuperating from the overnight passage, we explored inland from Chinook - first to the grocery store, then to the local museum, then to the local hiking trails.
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| A great view of the harbour |
Another storm is forecast for the area (it IS winter, after all), so we may sail across to the UK and tuck into Dartmouth.
Boat people - why is it always about the boat? Buy this for the boat, do that for the boat; it’s like the boat rules them or something. Spoken as a boat person.
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