To the uninitiated the landscape of the Essex coast,Is just as bland as a piece of toast.There are no mountains, and even the cliffs are few,Only swatchways and mud, but what is a sailor to do? Some say the even bigger shame,Is that Essex victuals are just as lame.Even MG, who so loved this coast,Described a tin of hot Spam as an Essex roast. A few weeks past we cruised
The cruising log is a unique literary genre, and can take many forms. Part fact and part fiction, a log can be as tedious as a week in the Horse Latitudes and/or as dramatic as a lee shore in a heavy gale. Here we have a log relating to the AOA July 2023 cruise to the Rivers Ore and Alde, on the East Anglian coast north of Felixstowe. However, the