Our last full day on Tenacity of Bolton

Today started with a lovely cooked breakfast of eggy bread made by Drew and Ollie. We then had a big knot tying race in which everyone battled it out to tie three knots as quickly as possible. Drew, Alex and Sam ended up as the clear favourites due to their “knot obsession” last night, but Sam won with 18 seconds! We had to tie a bowline, clove hitch and a round turn and two half hitches.
We then made a mad dash from Fleetwood to Glasson Dock. We had to make it in ninety minutes or face heading straight back. Fleetwood dock was late letting us out so we had to cut a corner heading back to Glasson and briefly bumped over a sandbank. Some of us sat up by the bow and had waves splashing over us. When we finally reached Glasson, the gate was half closed. Luckily the lock keeper saw us arrive and lowered the gate, the light turned to green and we went in.
For tea we had fish and chips followed by pancakes in which we all cooked our own. Drew, Matty and Dougie discovered it wasn’t a great idea to eat a Mars bar in a pancake. (Yes, you did read that right. To clarify: they put a bar of chocolate in a pancake and attempted to eat it.) Drew and Sam again tried the knot tying race and it came to a win today for Drew with a phenomenal 15 seconds, including a 1.5 second clove hitch. However, Sam would like to say it was a matter of milliseconds and he will beat him tomorrow. Watch this space…

Josh and Drew