The sail back from Burnham was slightly impacted by a. lack of wind (or wind the right direction) b. the failure of the cruising chute to deploy properly (seemed to jamb halfway through unfurling) and c. a lack of Diesel !
We'd not used much up on the run yesterday but it seemed to be eating its way through the tank today as we had to motor due to lack of wind. I managed to get the cruising chute to open in the end but with lack of wind we sailed most of the way at a slower pace to conserve fuel.
Our 'reward' was seeing this swimming with us.
OK its a Harbour Porpoise and not a Dolphin but nice to see neve the less.
Anyway back to the problems and it was a bit worrying as we had to use the engine for the last hour - in the approaches to one of Europe's busiest Container ports) - but we made it. Arriving back with this showing on the gauge, about 1/8th left - if we were lucky about 7.5l.
When we topped up the tank we got in 42.5 litres in it and as we have a 60 l tank that's still 17.5 left. So a fair margin of safety.
Finally as we drove home in the MK7 I spotted this nice looking Porsche 948 in the sunset next to the boat the owner was working on. Nice reg to - L30POR.
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