Last Supper?

And more pictures of Renegade

Pictures of Renegade

At last here are some pictures of Renegade's deck and interior. More pictures on the next post.

Syndicate share for sale

Shares in the Renegade Syndicate are for sale. See: http://www.yours2share.com/cgi-bin/mojoClassified.cgi?id=8199&action=view&type=ad

Eric looks the other way as the crane takes the strain

HW at Norwich

To find the approximate time of high water at Norwich, find the time of low water and add 5hrs 15mins.
LW at Norwich occurs 3hrs 30mins after LW Yarmouth Yacht station.
LW Yarmouth Yacht Station occurs 60mins after LW Gorleston.
LW Gorleston occurs 30mins before LW Lowestoft (Standard Port)

Alternatively follow the link to Broads Tide table: http://www.broads-authority.gov.uk/boating/navigating/tide-tables.html

New Skipper

Jersey to Weymouth

Every day the weather forecast from Jersey Met Office, which was posted at the St Helier Marina office read "NE 5 to 6 occasionally 7" . So, on Saturday afternoon, the 24 hour forecast of "NE 4 to 5 occasionally 6. Sea state moderate, but locally rough." made us decide to seize the opportunity to get Renegade back to England.
At 0600hrs on Sunday morning we motored out of St Helier onto a windless sea and turned west to round La Corbiere Point before the wind picked up. Renegade's best course to windward lay toward Sark. After a couple of hours we passed the rocky southern tip of the island and into the Big Russel. Close hauled on starboard tack we skirted the small island of Brecqhou, with it's preposterous modern castle. With the white sand of Herm's Shell Beach to leward Renegade was making good speed with almost 3 knots of tide in her favour.
We left the Big Russel through a narrow channel leaving the Grande Amfroque islet, with its twin white beacons, to starboard and shaped a course for the Ortac Passage between Alderney and The Casquets.
As forecast the wind was blowing force 4 with occasional gusts of 5. In bright sunshine we left the channel islands behind and entered the English Channel, where we encountered the locally rough sea which had also been forecast. A line of breaking waves spread across the northern horizon. Aries, the trusty self steering gear, held Renegade's course and we were soon amongst the breaking water. One wave decided to fill Renegade's cockpit and for good measure soaked Dennis and me, despite our oilskins, with enough to spare for the charts, which were on the navigation desk.
Before sunset we had passed throught the shipping lanes and as it grew dark we could see the double flash of Portland Bill lighthouse.
The wind freshened and came from a more northerly direction. This combined with the change in the tide prevented Renegade from sailing to the East of The Bill on starboard tack, so the final 4 hours of the crossing were spent motoring to windward.
By 0200 on Monday morning Renegade was rafted up to another yacht on the pontoon in Weymouth Harbour. Our arrival had not gone unnoticed by our neighbours, but they were most understanding when we made our apologies in the morning.
Adrian