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Monday, May 14, 2012

Kingsbridge

It hadn't been a particularly comfortable night. The wind had increased and the mooring buoy kept banging against the side.
At 05:30 I poked my head outside to see what all the noise was about, and saw a bright red dawn sky.
After breakfast we sailed with the tide, in the heavy rain to Kingsbridge until we ran out of water and ran aground. We picked up a handy buoy and waited for the tide to rise another couple of feet before continuing up to the Kingsbridge visitors pontoon.
We calculated that we had a couple of hours in which to explore the town and find lunch in our waterproofs.
After a substantial lunch and a bit of shopping we returned under engine in the rain to a more sheltered visitors pontoon at Salcombe, where the sun did eventually shine and we dried out.

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