The winds of change !

Today we signed the handover documents and we are now the proud owners of Silhouette. We arrived at Sutton Harbour where we were met by James Christian from Ancasta. An hour later he left us to admire our beautiful boat. We couldn't wait to start opening lockers and begin putting stuff away. We bought a new 2.9 metre inflatable and stowed in in the starboard cockpit locker.... well we actually watched it disappear into the depth of the locker, damn she's big !! Being a guy that loves pressing buttons, I made the mistake of switching on the E120 watching it come to life showing the interface between radar, chart and AIS. Caroline quickly chatised me and told me to switch it off and help stow belongings.... Guess she's skipper today!

September and October have been remarkably settled weather wise with very favourable winds making the journey from Plymouth back to Poole a tempting prospect. Then the weather gods decided it was time for an autumn change and positioned a very menacing low pressure just off Lands end. We had to make a decision and it had to be based on the fact that weather windows were getting fewer as autumn started to appear and our lack of available time from work. So we decided to get Halcyon Yacht Delivery to bring her up for us. The chosen skipper Andreas Fech has decided on an overnight trip Monday/Tuesday of this week. It looks like he's going to use the edge of the low to catapult Silhouette up the channel before the gales hit later in the week. Their reputation for care was well researched by us before giving them the job.

So she should be in her berth on Tuesday..... hope so as I've got more buttons to push :-)