Kinder weather

We were discombobulated today by the time of our departure from our bumpy Oostende berth. No, we did not depart at sparrowfart as usual,  but - this is a first - after a leisurely lunch.

We did everything on the list and still had an hour or more to spare. It was unnerving to leave so late, especially after the young and outspoken harbour master told us we should have left at 5am. 

Well he was wrong. We had a very uneventful journey, though it started off quite bumpy with the boat rolling because of winds from behind her but we made good time with favourable tides and arrived at Dunkerque at 7.15pm. 

The only extraordinary thing about the day was sticking our heads out of the cockpit to see what looked like a block of flats moving past us.  In fact it was a massive mobile  platform carrying two wind turbine legs plus the blades- absolutely ginormous though our picture doesn't do it justice. How it got through the narrow entrance to the harbour is a mystery.