Have been in the Walton Backwaters with the YBW.com East Coast Forum for a Pirate weekend.

Had a great time.

Put Siernia on the beach but had som trouble when getting of the beach.

The rope on the prop was a bit embarrassing
It was due to muddled thinking by me or no thinking at all.
I wanted to get the main anchor out 1st as it was set along the beach.
and then to haul her out on the kedge that was made fast on the port quarter.
For some reason I started the engine before we had the main anchor broken out.
We where struggling with this as the lever for the anchor winch had vanished.
The line on the kedge had not be let out enough to get us over the main and for some reason I dumped the remaining length of kedge line over the side instead of paying is out.
The engine got accidentally kicked into gear and then stopped.

We had the stay by the beach on 2 anchors for the night.
We touched bottom about 5 a.m.
8.30 saw me kneeling in 6" of sticky mud excavating the prop and unwinding the rope. (Thankfully I had put my chest waders in the boat instead of back in the car boot as I normally do after launching the dinghy)
It had got jambed between the prop and the cutlass bearing.

Back afloat mid day followed by a rolly surfy trip back to the Deben.
We got the the Deben bar before the tide turned.
With that wind blowing I would not have fanced the bar with a Deben spring ebb running.

Despite all that my crew of newcomers to sailing had a wonderful time and can't wait to do it again

Now home safe and dry.
Will have to clean Sirenia is still covered in mud. Hopefully it wel get washed off by our wonderful summer weather. If not I will have to do it when I can get down again.