Another North Sea Crossing

My night watch starts at 03:00. Fog starts sifting in midwatch, growing tighter as we go. Shame that the radar, new last season, doesn't function. The pea-soup is giving us about a meter's view over the bow.

But about 07:30 it lifts, like walking through a curtain. A bright sunny day ahead. We celebrate another North Sea crossing, and have an English breakfast: bacon and eggs. The wind dies down now and we motor-sail slowly on calm waters. The guitar comes out, a nice break from reading instruction manuals for navtex, new gps, the windvane, all the navigation instruments, and more.

We'll reach Lossiemouth this evening but must wait for high tide to enter the harbor. Meanwhile it's a Mediterranean cruise, flat blue seas, blazing sun.
10pm: We enter Lossiemouth Harbour and tie up. After my fourth and Ørnulf's sixth North Sea crossing. Time to celebrate with an anchor dram.