Summer hasn't materialised – on the contrary. Overcast skies, rain, wind gusts, ... This feels more like October or November than the heart of Summer.
Will we set off regardless, or take each day as it comes? Don't fancy sheltering from storms in some dreary marina for days on end. We've done that plenty of times in the past, and fun it is not.

Revised Summer plan: maybe a repetition of the family North Sea Triangle Classic (Ipswich-Ostend-Ramsgate) or the other way round, or Ostend and back. Whatever...

Once I 'let go' of whatever schedule I had in mind previously, it always feels like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. Boats don't run on schedule.

For today, family daysail to Landguard, Cork Sands, Sealand, Medusa and all points in between. Maybe get the gennaker up, maybe not.

And in the mean time, I'll watch weather sites for a suitable window. Not what we/I had hoped for, but when life hands you lemons...