Sunfish

<should this go on 28th?>
After a beautiful sunset we got treated to a harbour porpoise feeding near a neighbouring yacht. They need to eat 10% of their weight eat day and feed constantly , consuming around 3000 small fish a day.

After a calm night at anchor we awoke at 530am to the boat rolling and a stiff NE breeze. The temperature had dropped and the view back to the Needles and the lighthouse was very eerie, unlike the crisp blue we’d had the day before. There was no going back to bed so we had an early breakfast and headed back to Yarmouth to launch our kites. We had to negotiate the line of bouys and rope marking the swim area, having to cut then raise the engine to get in, then swim the foil boards over each time we tried to get past. We launched the 9 and 11m but before we had left the wind dropped, so we changed up to our 15m’s  – maybe a bit too soon as when we got out into the current in the main channel we were overpowered, but by heading deeper downwind we could shed some of that power and continue on our foils. The Solent narrows considerably at it’s western end and there was strong wind-over-tide waves, however just out of the channel it was flat, so we stayed there, while mentor got a bit of a choppy ride.

Past Hurst castle and out of the Solent we decide to change to our twin tip boards and found it much easier to handle the power. The tide had now turned and we were going with both wind and current and making great progress.  We headed straight for the first major headland of the day; Anvil Point and St Alban’s Head. The later had overfalls (large disturbed waves caused by the tide running over underwater rocky outcrops) extending 3 miles from the headland so we gave it a wide berth. The next choice was to either head to Weymouth (a further 18 miles)  or keep going on the same course to try and get past Portland Bill and around to Bridport ( a further 38 miles ). We opted for Portland Bill and were within sight of it when the wind died. With kites in the water we were still going at 5knots with the current!

Joe then reported smoke coming from the engine room, so he had to shut down the Starboard engine and we had no choice but to pack up for the day. We vented out the smoke which we found was from a disconnected exhaust and headed into Portland harbour on one engine.

We saw a strange creature at the surface on the way in, which we though was a turtle at first but turned out to be a sunfish! Extremely rare and a first for all the crew!

On anchor in Portland harbour, we fixed the exhaust and Jeremy got to go for a kite. Portland was the largest man-made harbour when it was built in 1872 (now the third), and there is a great beach and flat water for kiting. It is also the home of the National Sailing Academy and hosted the 2012 Olympic sailing and windsurfing events.

56 miles kited and 38 miles travelled today in just over 4 hrs. Pretty happy with that! (For difference between distance kited and distance travelled please see our FAQ page )

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