Glancing out of my window I see the leaves on the trees are upturned and clinging to the branches in the stiff breeze...
Conditions were no different this morning when me and Paul Sparrow had the "do we, don't we, it'll be all right" conversation at Bognor Slip this morning.
I knew that to the east the water is always calm at low tide no matter the wind strength. To the west lay new unexplored territory to me. We headed west. As it turned out the only rough bit lasted several miles local to Bognor, conditions calmed down in lee of Selsey, though we didn't fancy rounding the peninsular so we called it quits at the lifeboat station. In an about turn we now headed west to Littlehampton, which meant going through the Bognor chop again, but once through the chop the sea was exactly as I'd predicted, very calm. At Littlehampton Paul & son Josh swapped hovers, Josh now driving the Fish with Paul riding pillion in Vorspray. The heavens opened on the home run, so much so that my face felt like a rusty piece of iron being sandblasted.
All in all it was a 25 mile cruise. I look forward to cruising from here again and cruising further given good weather.
Cheers
Chris
P.S. Here is the footage (I'd have liked to have pictured more of the rough stuff but couldn't drive it one-handed)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17vUyB21T_E#