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Day 52 A fine anchorage


So here is a funny story. We had spoken to Hoedic a couple of days ago and agreed to meet at one of two anchorages and we were coming from completely different directions. We could not see their progress on AIS and it seemed that they were about an hour behind us but I was begining to get fed up with going through really narrow and shallow passes so we left the archipelago and headed out to sea. This allowed us to sail in a more relaxed way but it is not protected so provided the wind does not pick up too much it would be nice. As it happened we got an hours sailing in and were able to then head in having missed many passes.

As we approached the anchorage we could see Hoedic and Crystal Venture going in and we could hear them on the radio declare that there was not enough space and that they would try the other anchorage. As they came out they came straight towards us, this confused me as I had a route already programmed in to the other anchorage that went in the direction we were going. At this point I zoomed out to see if they had found an easier route and it looked like there could be an easier route the way they were going so we decided to follow them only to swing around and find that they had swung around and were now following us! We soon workout out that as we were the bigger boat it was safer for them to follow us so we resumed our course.

When we arrived it looked like there was no room so we stayed out and did circles until the others had sorted themselves out. We went in cautiously but there was much more room than it looked. However we were anchored further out than we wanted. After a short time I launched the dinghy as Hoedic was not happy and moved leaving a line ashore. We collected Susan and then retrieved their line. On return we were hailed by a Dutch yacht at anchor who told us they were leaving, so as soon as they left we all moved up and were very happy.

Shortly after we were anchored we were invited to dinner on Hoedic with Crystal Venture so that was eight for dinner. Soon after Bolero and Jolief arrived at the anchorage but there was no way another seven could join the party so another party was had on Jolief, with sore heads I believe.

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