Sunday brought sunshine and warmth and a rare lie-in. Our young passengers needed to catch train back to London that evening, which enabled us to 'mess about' on the boat all that day. Enjoyed sailing around in Portland Bay heading gradually eastwards along the spectacular Jurassic Coast towards
Lulworth Cove, a beautiful spot. Unfortunately no time to go in so instead tried fishing for mackerel on way back but without success - technique needs refining I think.
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| Portland Bill Lighthouse |
Monday 7th May: having studied all the tidal stream diagrams and checked tide times several times over, read and re-read the very scary passages in the relevant pilot books, we decided to take courage in both hands and take the inside passage around Portland Bill. This would be the first real test of our own seamanship on this voyage and of Follyfin's seaworthiness. There is much history associated with
Portland Bill not least of which is that most of the stone used in many of London's historic buildings is of course Portland stone. We passed so close that we could easily have spoken to the people on the land.
