We had a very quick journey down to Studland Bay. A Beam reach most of the way and only one main tack once we were setup to sail. We arrived off Portland Bill some 4 hours before we expected to get there. We were helped by utilising the cruising chute. This is a very large fore sail similar to a spinnaker without the pole.
https://www.jollyparrot.co.uk/blog/what-is-cruising-chute
This was a bit of fun to fly, requiring a good deal of team coordination and also meaning we could travel much faster than the other yachts around us. Always enjoyable!
Once again we had a dolphin escort, amazing really as up until the last few days we had seen very few.
We are overnighting in Studland to wait for the tide to get past The Needles tomorrow morning where we end our adventure back in Lymington.
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| The Jurassic coast at 5.00 am |
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| Paul’s friend |
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| Our track |
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