Thursday 9th August 2001 – 8.49am
A mark-in-the-memory kind of view this morning: the sky clear and bright, Black Combe standing proud and the water blue. The north-northwest wind is coming in from over North Scale and across the wide scope of the exposed Channel bed. By North Scale, only just visible, Le Griff, one of the boats moored up by the bank, finally has both her masts raised into place, the end result of slow patient work by her owner.