Tuesday 10 June

The night run went well although the seas were running strongly they were south eastly and pushed us along quite well. Polly towed well with the rope out the back. Arrived off the bar at 1770 and the bar was running quite strongly. Watched for a while and picked the best course to the first green marker. Everything was going well until a wave suddenly picked up behind us and slewed us sidewards .Polly the tender flipped and its anchor fell out and dug in ,we stopped. The engine stalled. Restarted the engine and Gary cut the tow rope to Polly . Once freed the engine stalled again. Wave over the back. Restarted the engine and with power we now raced to round the green marker and calmer water.
We reported the floating tender to the Volunteer Marine Rescue and the informed us that Polly had now drifted over the bar. We went back out and towed her inside to a sand bar, righted her and drained the water out of her. We had lost the crab pot and the anchor with rope had ripped the cleat out of the boat. Heading back in we picked up her bailer floating in with the tide.
The seat ofv the day was spent looking at each other and saying F###K .The out board was stripped but we couldn’t get it going. Gary tried his hand at splicing and made a new anchor rope.
Early night quite emotionally drained.