Cruise from The Stracey Arms to Great Yarmouth, navigating the Bure Bridges and mooring up at The Town Hall Quay where Daniel joined us for the day to enjoy a McDonalds lunch and visit to the Pleasurebeach.
After he left, we went to the cinema and found three Dutch yachts moored alongside upon our return, making it difficult for the night.
We slept well last night, and I had a bit of a lay in this morning as the girls went ahead of me into the shower. In fact, I had forgotten the routine after several months and was very slow even when I got started! Diana and I left the girls and walked off to the Stracey Arms shop to get some groceries and then we un-moored and set off for Yarmouth and had arrived inside two hours. We had been concerned about the state of the tide and as to whether we would be able to get under the Bure and Haven bridges, but we need not have worried as we had 2/3ft to spare, even within a couple of hours of high tide. We therefore moored up at the Town Quay which was empty and were joined there by Daniel who had come to join us for the day.
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The weather was rather chilly and dull today; raining in spells as well, although this was only light. We had lunch at McDonalds together and then went to Pleasurebeach where all the family had rides except me. Then this evening, after Daniel had left, the rest of us went to the cinema to watch a film called "Problem Child" which Diana was keen on. Back to the boat where I struggled with three Dutch sailing yachts which had moored alongside us, making it exceedingly difficult to keep the boat steady and fendered in the breeze and tidal flows. Diana and the girls wanted to go to bed early, and I stayed up and wrote up my journal and ships log.