We left Guernsey at 3pm after yet another cooked breakfast! The trip to Alderney was lovely, flat calm and we arrived there at 7pm enjoying the evening sun. All the moorings in the shelter of the harbour wall were taken, so we had to go on a mooring buoy under the fort right in the entrance of the harbour. We put our watches back 200 years and had a quick walk around then to the Divers pub for a drink, we sat outside overlooking the bay looking at Rowena, it was very peaceful, when we got back to Rowena we sat out side up top and looked at the stars, there were hardly any lights around and I'm sure we saw the milky way, but not being astronomers we weren't sure. The evening, however, went down hill from there on, the swell coming in bounced us around all over the place, so not much sleep and we had to leave at 5am anyway.

Crossing the channel was bliss compared to the night before, flat calm, saw two dolphins but they didn't stay and play with us. We arrived at Salcombe at 2pm and are all moored up outside the yacht club on a mooring buoy.