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
After spending the winter warming his weary bones on the white sands of Majorca, Billy Blister found himself propping up the bar at the Butt & Oyster. He told himself he was waiting for the tide, but his plans extended no further than closing time. Anyhow, he casually turned over the mat on which stood his pint, and low and behold, a little rhyme hove into sight… Shotley Spit is