"What a diff 'rence a day makes," goes the song. The morning is still and glassy. With just a suspicion of a breeze; blowing directly from Dieppe, sixty nautical miles to the south east.
The smooth seastate has the powerboats scrambling for the lock. Singular, for the next several days, because one of the pair is undergoing annual maintenance. A factor to consider for Stargazer's departure.
As is the arrival of spring tides. Low water will coincide with Stargazer's preferred dawn departure slot. By the time that the wind swings south westerly (or, if our luck is in, fully westerly) and attains passage making strength, later in the week.
Winter storms seem, judging from our soundings on the way in, to have created a bar at the mouth of the entrance channel. 'Soon' it will be dredged clear. But, for now, it forms another element to contemplate in our planning jigsaw puzzle.
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