Plan C

A further plan for the epic two week summer trip is evolving as we speak. Plan A had been a trip solely to the Norfolk Broads, cruising in company as far as Great Yarmouth then splitting up as we enter the Broads and our companions headed off down the East Coast. Plan B involved a group trip to the Broads with a visit to Southwold thrown in for good measure to satisfy the salty needs of our cruising buddies.

Plan C is a trip in the planning for if all else fails. It pays to have a few plans up your sleeve when coastal cruising. It occurred to us all at the weekend, that both Plan A and Plan B depend very much on good weather and sea state conditions to enable the trips to be completed successfully. Not something you can guarantee in the UK climate especially during the summer months and we are going away at the beginning of July, summer season. So we have had to come up with a backup plan, just in case. We didn’t want a repeat performance of last year where we were stuck in Boston for an extended period.

Plan B will be our intended trip, but if all else fails we will nip across the Wash estuary to Kings Lynn and then continue up the River Great Ouse towards Ely. A trip that relies less so on good weather but will still provide a couple of weeks of good cruising, a salty water section and pleasant river cruising which is less reliant on such good weather.

Neither ourselves nor our cruising companions have been to the River Great Ouse before so it will be a pleasant change for both us and them. Now we have even more planning and research to do and more passage plans to complete. I feel another round of eye spy coming on.

I am sure that Plan D will be along shortly, there are four months before we head off on our summer adventure!