St Peter Port steadily fills, at the start of a sizzling Late Spring Bank Holiday.
A shimmering heat haze blurs the beaches of Herm, beyond the Brehon tower. Catspaws of sea breeze softly pad, toward Guernsey, across a lightly ruffled Little Russel.
Motorboats make the most of the ideal (for them) conditions. Comfortably outnumbering arrivals under sail.
Caroline, last alongside Stargazer in Sovereign Harbour (see Ad Lib 9), puts in a surprise appearance.
Disembarking a troop of uniformed, mobile phone toting, 'deckhands.' Whom it transpires are engineers. On board to sea trial a new engine. Installed, during the week, in the venerable Vancouver 28.
Caroline, Stargazer and a Golden Hind, named Fiddlers Green, are in agreement. With surroundings as sublime as these, and the prevailing light airs, the only sensible course of action is to enjoy our Whit Bank Holiday in situ.
Whilst preparing to take advantage of passage making easterlies, expected on Monday or Tuesday. The tides, by then, suiting an overnight passage to the Breizh (Breton) shore. If Stargazer is to benefit from a daylight landfall.
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