Finally, for completeness, here we are approaching Pevensey Bay in lovely conditions at sunset. Hastings is to the right and Beachy Head to the left. The seamarks of Beachy Head and Fairlight are like arms funnelling you in from the English Channel when making a passage from the Somme. #MedievalSky

In contrast to the harbours along the Alabaster coast, the Somme estuary is vast and easily accessible. This is where you have to come if you can't get into harbours along the way or if you're travelling as a fleet. It's very shallow though, hence the constant depth readings #MedievalSky

The last video I took before it got so bouncy and windy that all I could do was hold on and focus on navigating us into Fécamp in the dark (a harbour that the pilot guide says not to attempt in the northerly gale force conditions we were in at the time). It was a long, wet day/night #MedievalSky

I've been watching back videos from when I sailed from Dives-sur-Mer to Saint-Valery-sur-Somme, following the route of the Norman invasion fleet in 1066. 130km of c. 70m chalk cliffs in a strong N/NE wind that turned into a gale just before we reached Fécamp. Similar conditions to 1066 #MedievalSky