A windy day 'at ease'

As predicted, by the weather people, the wind is howling, directly from the south. 

 Even in a marina, as posh as this one, the boats are leaping up and down and the constant creaking of rope is annoying, to say the least. The seas are breaking heavily over the local sandbanks so I'm tending to look the other way.  Spent the morning fixing things then popped into the yacht club to explore and take some pictures. I could happily spend a weeks holiday staying here. Its such a lovely building and such a lovely place to relax. To give an idea of how 'complete' the place is let me start with this...

Is this the poshest men's toilet ever ? A truly mind blowing experience. When confronted by this I was tempted to pop outside and find a bush........out of sheer reverence. Apparently this copper thing is part of the original 1880 building and is listed. Im afraid I have nothing much else to report, other than the fact that I want to get home soon, If more bad weather is to halt my progress I hope it happens a bit nearer Portsmouth ( eg Brighton ! ) Anyway,  I've taken the liberty of including another pic of the loo and the bar. 

This afternoon, I enjoyed another glass of wine in the yachtclub before listening to football on the radio. The mighty Pompey' were performing again. Clearly, they were desperately unlucky and the ref was dreadful. Moving on.... I then spent half an hour planning tomorrow's trip to an anchorage in the 'Blackwaters' near Harwich. The significant point with this is that it was just half an hour. Before this trip began, I would have spent days planning such a trip because there are hazards everywhere.  Now, I just do it. This is a snippet of yesterday's approach chart

In the  red bit there were about 50 wind turbines ready to chop up anything that happened their way. The reality of this bit was that I followed a fishing boat. I figured he knew what he was doing. 

1030 now and the wind appears to be dying down so, hopefully, I'll cast off at 7am. Night