Here we are in London at St Katherine Dock, just yards from Tower Bridge. Jojac isn't quute the smallest boat here but there are some much, much bigger than us. But we are in good company: old Thames barges, as in the picture, the Queen's jubilee barge Gloriana, and Havengore which carried Winston Churchill's coffin at his state funeral.

 The trip round from Ramsgate was interesting, and after the foul seas rounding North Foreland we were rewarded with a very rough night in the river Swale, opposite Southend. Sunday was even windier but after a bouncy start we were in the Thames and things improved. The final 20 miles were great, passing Gravesend (where Pocahontas died), then Greenwich and the meridian,  the Thames barrier, then round Canary Wharf  and finally up to Tower Bridge and through the lock into the dock.

Today has been rest (us) and repair (Jojac). I needed some bits of hardware and the only chandlery (boat hardware shop) was in Shaftesbury Avenue,  right in the middle of theatre land. Bizarre, but they had what I needed.