Good Morning!
It is a lovely sunny, windy day here in the Ramsgate marina. DoraMac looks like a floating laundry with clothes hung both sides of the stern and some on the bow. Randal has declared a holiday for himself after spending the past hour doing boat work. The engine room fan quit yesterday and needed to be replaced. We are still having chart plotter issues but …… we’re taking a work holiday and going exploring.
Thanks for all of your emails about places to see and places to eat. I’m going to start a folder and save them all. It’s very rewarding to read that our travels bring back memories for many of you. Swapping stories is a major form of entertainment for cruisers.
So time to get cleaned up and go to shore!
Ru
Eastbourne to Ramsgate
It was another 5 AM wake up for a 6 AM departure. We arrived in Ramsgate at 4:30 PM. Long day but not rough cruising. The only tricky part was passing Dover where the ferries cross back and forth to France. We had to deal with 4 of them almost simultaneously.
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The circled symbols indicate wrecks; some classified dangerous and some not. They all seem to be at least 60 feet underwater so I’m not sure why they would be dangerous. I do tend to go around when I see the symbols. There just seemed to be a huge number in this area. I believe the Samida was a Liberty ship sunk during the war. Sad. http://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?126 actually tells all about the Samida. http://www.mypowerboat.com/charted-depth-criteria.html gives an explanation of dangerous vs non-dangerous wreck. |
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Off in the distance are the “white cliffs of Dover” with “blue skies over.” |
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Crossing over the Chunnel DoraMac is circled in red. The not circled black triangles are the ferry boats we had to dodge or who dodged us as they were moving faster so they avoided us. |
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I think I’d prefer being in a boat passing over the Chunnel than under all of that water. We’ll see.
Evening view of Ramsgate from our front window. Normally I try to cover up the window because the light impacts my computer screen; but the view is just too nice. |
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Lovely sailing boat across the pier from us. |
