Zen Again 10

Stargazer glides into Dover, as Two Bells, in the first dog watch (17.00) strikes; and fourteen knots, of afternoon sea-breeze, dies to a clock calm. Exactly as Meteo Consult had forecast.

Based on that forecast, we left Ramsgate as soon as the sun stirred the wind into action. Standing close in to the Deal shore. Cheating the tide, which had yet to turn in our favour, by hugging the shallows.

Broad reaching, through the diaphanous billows, of a light sea-haar, around the South Foreland. Whence the tide whisks us through the eastern entrance, of the Dover breakwater. Our short passage rendered all the more pleasurable, by a welcome absence of drama.