The mariners lament, too much wind and not enough wind. After all the strong winds brought by storm Cristoph it's all going to die away to nothing. Friday is showing W F5 and Saturday NW F3. It will be prudent I think,to miss Wells next the sea for another day and press on to Grimsby. It will be a 16 hr slog but it'll get some miles behind us after being stuck in Lowestoft all week (no offence Lowestoft)
The tides along our journey are dominated by the filling and emptying of the Wash. They splay out N and E on the ebb and the reverse on the flood. On a 16 hour journey, we are not going to be able to dodge foul tide, so by and large we'll just ignore the effects and take it on the chin. An important consideration is getting to Grimsby on an ingoing tide or at least slack water. Also entry to the fish dock is on free flow which is -2 to + I H W Grimsby. HW is 1222 So with a journey time of just over 16 hours, Departure time is1930 hrs tonight. Our first night passage.
Passage plan.
We've got everything on this one sailing at night windfarms strong tides t DSS traffic separation schemes and lots of Sandbanks a picture paints a 1000 words so instead of doing this all all in writing I've done a series of screenshots from Savvy navvy
Leaving Lowestoft
Passing Scroby Sands Wind farm
Two routes around Sheringham Shoal
North between docking Shoal and Race Bank wind farm
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