Jojac came out of the water today. I cleaned her off, touched up the waterline, replaced the anode and checked that the the rope round the prop the other day had done no damage. She was back in by 1145 but the lock had closed for the day though so I will leave on tomorrow's tide around 0800. I thought I would go to the Fishing Heritage Centre this afternoon - guess what, it's closed on Mondays. This is developing into a pattern; the Shotley HMS Ganges museum only opens Saturdays, the Harwich lifeboat museum on Wednesdays, and I was there on a Tuesday .....

Last night I had a bit of a first. Someone came aboard about 10 pm. There was a bit if a racket from the cockpit and when I went to look there was a fox, bold as brass, pulling my anchoring gloves out of a cubbyhole. He was very unperturbed and only wandered off after some stern words - after all, I said, you don't look old enough to be out this late, haven't you got a home to go to? He wandered onto the boat next door at which point I got the rather grainy photo below.

Tomorrow I will set off for Yorkshire, where I am led to believe wolves still roam, so I hope for even more excitement.