After a few days in Brighton we were ready to leave. It was really special being back in such a familiar city surrounded by so many memories and friends, but when you know you’ve got distance to cover you don’t want to be in any one place for too long, especially given our disappointing progress so far. But boy was that going to change today!
We had an hour’s motor back to Newhaven where the wind had died on Wednesday. When we arrived it was blowing ~12knots, with the forecast scheduled to increase, so we rigged up the 9m and 11m kites and set off on the foils, with the intention of swapping to the twin tips if/when the wind came in. Unsurpirsingly, for this trip, it never did.
We crossed from Brighton to Selsey Bill, quite far out to help reduce the distance we needed to travel. We can’t head directly downwind on the foils so we were on a broad reach gybing back and forth in front of Mentor while we aimed for a sail-boat far in the distance. Eventually Stew caught it up, waving and making friends before the wind died, and we became becalmed for ~20 minutes. Just long enough to get a mouthful of Pringles before it filled in again, and we were off chasing down the yacht again, which had earned back it’s lead.
When Stew caught up again, the yacht was waving and pointing to the sea. Once we got close enough we saw there was a dolphin. Was hard to tell if it was a short-beaked common dolphin, or a bottlenose, but definitely not the smaller harbour porpoise. It was riding the bow wave of the ship popping up every 20 seconds or so. The yacht must have got some amazing photos, the man hanging his feet over the side looked as if they would touch the dorsal fin as it surfaced.
Once around Selsey Bill, the most southern point in Sussex, it was still early afternoon and with good wind, we started thinking about possibly continuing past our initial destination of Chichester. We adjusted our passage plan first to head to Ryde, then Cowes, and finally to Yarmouth on the Isle of Wight. Being bank holiday Saturday, the Solent was packed with boats everywhere. We got lots of waves from passers by, but it took a lot of concentration to ensure we stayed clear of all the traffic, including the ferries (we passed 6 of them) and forts (2). At one point I had to yell at a man in a speed boat who was more interested in showing off to his friends in the boat rather than looking at where he was going. I had to abruptly change direction and still got a wash of his wake when he passed, with both me and his co-pilot friend giving him an earful as he passed.
A great day, Stew kited 100miles, our longest day so far! (I head slightly deeper downwind, taking slightly shorter tacks, so only did 98miles). No wind forecast for the next two days, so should give our bodies a good rest after 7hours 30mins on the water.
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