Posted by Andrew Craig-Bennett on August 24, 2007 at 23:44:07 from 195.93.21.2 user ACB.
In Reply to: Re: Well, I find the shape of the Pye End Buoy as interesting as Beckfoot's plumbing... posted by Jock on August 23, 2007 at 16:19:01:
I'm as puzzled as Lawrence!
If he's steering 250 T, or thereabouts, and is holding her to port, risking a gybe, the wind is Easterly. He has only to bring her to starboard and reach into Harwich - if he is looking for the Pye End the distance is a bare mile before he gets shelter from Landguard Point, and it is in deep water, whereas the entrance to Walton is shoal and in a strong easterly there will be a nasty sea there.
Furthermore, to make Walton he's going to have to gybe, if he's sailing by the lee on 250T.
The writing may be OK but the seamanship certainly isn't!