It rained pretty hard overnight and indeed it was still raining by the time we got up, necessitating donning full waterproofs (in my case, Julie is made of sterner stuff) for our trip to the washrooms. By the time we’d showered though, the rain had more or less stopped but conditions remained damp and we had occasional short showers over the morning. Not that interesting, I know but it had relevance to our plan for the day which was to do our laundry, including any residual guests’ stuff such as sleeping bags and so on. Normally we like to do it in dry conditions, so that the clothes can be air dried and if we are in a harbour with a free washing machine, so much the better. Here they are not free but at least they have several and also they have different sizes, the largest one being capable of taking 16kg loads. Moreover the two tumble dryers are industrial sized ones, so they are quite efficient. We did two ordinary loads of washing and placed the two sleeping bags into the big washer and we dried everything – total bill just over £25.00 but at least everything was done.

Richard & Gill on Calypso texted us to say that they were on their way and had made an early start and indeed they were with us by lunch time, having had a better wind than predicted and were able to sail for some of the time. We suggested that we would meet for tea and cakes and later dinner on board CW, when I produced a lamb curry and we had papadums and pickles for starters. Tomorrow we agreed we would head for Rudkøbing on the island of Langeland , about 33 miles to the south. There is a very large bridge that connects Fyn to Denmark’s principal island, Zealand and we have to go under it. No big deal as there is a 65m clearance in the main channel but in order to save about 6 miles, we intend passing under one of the lower spans, which has a charted height of 18m. Now we have an air draft of 17.5 metres so it is going to be tight, but that’s tomorrow’s story…