The promise of the forecast is delivered. Stargazer leaves Ramsgate as the sunrise glints off the house windows and a north easterly force three obligingly fills in.
We short tack, beating close inshore, to stay out of the adverse tide. Clawing our way north for two miles. Seeking out an eddy off the rocky plateau of the Broadstairs Ledge.
Stargazer rounds North Foreland at dead low water and turns west. Wind and tide are with us now.
I free the sheets. Above us, the cruising chute blossoms in the breeze. The blue of its chevrons matching the blue of the Easter Sunday sky.
The making tide and our wind bellied sails lift us effortlessly up the Kent shoreline. The wind slowly building as our sun drenched, day long, reach continues.
We gybe off Garrison Point, still carrying the tide and....
....sweep majestically home into the Medway. Stargazer's anchor rattles down in Godwit Bay. Truly a start of season sail to savour.
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