Thanks to Neil lending to me his winch, still hard work to get 8.5m/118l set up. Wind very up and down, but luckily short tides to so current fairly weak. A few OK rides but often not planing and when wind came it was off-shore and dirty. Off the wind was OK but always seemed to coincide with lulls, whilst going out was straight into chop; maybe old narrow boards are more suited to Felixstowe.

Nice to see the 'lads' with quite a few around. I earned my Xmas pud today.