It was a pretty windy weekend with 35 knots on Saturday and then a force 8 wind on Sunday - wow! We left for Skomer Island at 7am and two hours into the sail, realised we had lost our dinghy we had been towing.
The seas were so rough, we could not possibly stop to find it... Slightly panicking, Richard rang the coastguard and...it had been reported and found. Phew! Unfortunately, we still had to go back and get it so had to make a change to the passage plan. That meant a lazy day today as we prepared for our big sail to Ireland tomorrow.
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| The 'Pilot' delivering us the tender today! |
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| Another close one! We all need a little adventure....don't we?! |
In the words of Elvis... Love me Tender, unless of course the knots slip!
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You did not show us how to do the tender love knot. Jon
DeleteNow you are in Ireland best to use 2 painters ...to be sure, to be sure
DeleteOk so it's good to see it's all going smoothly then! Can you get disasters and bad weather out of the way ahead of my arrival this Saturday please JK? I've packed CDM so all is good! No Cardinal Puff though! Salim
ReplyDeleteOomph!... cardinal puff!... no way.
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