We had to get up at 4:50am today in order to catch the tide out of Glasson. Most of us took some waking up, we are not used to getting woken at that time in the morning! We got up and headed straight up on deck in our waterproofs and lifejackets. We found out this morning that our destination for the day was to be Peil Island near Barrow.
Getting down through the lock was pretty straightforward with the lock keeper doing most of the hard work, our challenge this morning was to get across Glasson Dock as the high tide was not a particularly large one, meaning that more than twice we touched the mud on the bottom and had to reroute to locate the ever so slightly deeper water. We made it though and as we went over the sea lock had a full 50cm of clearance underneath us. As we set off motoring out into the sea there was a rocking on the boat but as we progressed there was more turbulence and a few of us started to be sick. Also most of us got to steer the boat and be the helmsman. We worked in our watches and did an hour on sailing the boat and an hour of resting at the back of the boat.
The journey to Peil took us about 3 ½ hours of sailing and when we arrived everyone felt exhausted so we had about 2 hours of rest. During this time James Key slipped and cut his eyebrow on the table. For the rest of the day we motored up to Barrow and Mary took James to the hospital for a check up – even though James said his eyebrow didn’t hurt. While James was gone the port watch cleaned the heads and the deck and everyone did a bit of fishing and crabbing. Starboard watch prepared spaghetti Bolognese for tea.
James returned at about 7.30 and we set off back to Peil island where we had our expertly prepared evening meal and did a little more fishing under the back drop of Peil Island.
Alistair and Jonny
Getting down through the lock was pretty straightforward with the lock keeper doing most of the hard work, our challenge this morning was to get across Glasson Dock as the high tide was not a particularly large one, meaning that more than twice we touched the mud on the bottom and had to reroute to locate the ever so slightly deeper water. We made it though and as we went over the sea lock had a full 50cm of clearance underneath us. As we set off motoring out into the sea there was a rocking on the boat but as we progressed there was more turbulence and a few of us started to be sick. Also most of us got to steer the boat and be the helmsman. We worked in our watches and did an hour on sailing the boat and an hour of resting at the back of the boat.
The journey to Peil took us about 3 ½ hours of sailing and when we arrived everyone felt exhausted so we had about 2 hours of rest. During this time James Key slipped and cut his eyebrow on the table. For the rest of the day we motored up to Barrow and Mary took James to the hospital for a check up – even though James said his eyebrow didn’t hurt. While James was gone the port watch cleaned the heads and the deck and everyone did a bit of fishing and crabbing. Starboard watch prepared spaghetti Bolognese for tea.
James returned at about 7.30 and we set off back to Peil island where we had our expertly prepared evening meal and did a little more fishing under the back drop of Peil Island.
Alistair and Jonny
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