New home for Moondance

Moondance rested for a few weeks in the river Crouch, gathering a few choice botanical specimens on her underside, until last week when a crack crew consisting of Francoise, Peter, Antarctic Andy and Greg beat around the Forelands and down channel to Moondance's new home in the river Itchen. Hopefully that's the last time for a good while that she'll have to do the dreaded Channel slog.

Circumnavigation complete!

51 38.2N 000 40.7E 2750miles and 140 days after leaving Devon, Moondance & crew arrive at North Fambridge, almost a year since setting off. Champagne reception.

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All dinghly donghly again.

3/3. Catherine & kind taxi man John reappear and in the distance we see Donald, valiantly rowing back against the tide in the dinghy, found upstream. Hurrah!

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Taxi!

2/3. We hail water taxi who takes us to MD, then Donald & Catherine go with taxi on midnight search. A&I pray, ask around anxiously and contemplate our loss.

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Dinghyless!

Dark and late, we emerge from a lively evening in pub, to discover that the dinghy, built by Adrian all last winter, and our means of returning to MD, has gone.

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Pin Mill to Brightslingsea

51 48.2N 001 01.3E Brightlingsea. Adrian & Catherine get up at 4am to catch tide. Arrived by 10am. Yesterday lazy, muddy, fungi day in Pin Mill.

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Felixstowe

51 58.3N 001 16.5E Felixstowe-River Orwell. Long tedious sail past Sizewell power station, enlivened by dicing with UK's largest container terminal at 11pm.

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