On Sunday 5th August we set off for Southampton. We asked the berthing master to help turn us around in the fairway and set off into Yarmouth Roads, where we got the sails raised with no reefs. It was just about perfect sailing conditions, as we headed up the western Solent to Gurnard, before gybing, skirting the Bramble Bank and Calshot Spit and reaching up Southampton Water to Weston, where we dropped our sails. We then headed up the Itchen, filling the fuel tanks at Itchen Towage before returning to Toucando's pontoon.
Just off Newtown Creek we encountered Four Seasons. They had left Alderney a day after us. It was good to see them again. They seemed to be pointing cameras at us. I am hoping that there will be some nice photographs of us in due course.
Thanks very much to Colin and Roger for crewing and enabling Toucando to make her first cross channel cruise from Southampton.
Roger and Colin somewhere in the English Channel
Roger and Andrew in the Solent - with a Dutch gaffer
Voyage of Toucando
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