Thursday 9 June 2011

Wednesday Douglas to Ramsey

Let’s start with Tuesday evening-it was great! After a rocky day at sea, we anchored off the shore of Douglas port. As we got off the boat, we realised that it was the TT races week (motorbikes) which explained the large crowds on the hills. At the port however, it was quiet until suddenly we saw the red arrows fly straight over our heads and the ear-splitting rumble of the engines rung through our ears. We stayed on the port for about half an hour watching in awestruck silence. When we finally started to make our way into the town, we discovered why no one was around. The gate was shut at the end of the pier. We were locked in. Security seemed to take forever to come and after spending so much time on the sea, the ground appeared to be wobbling. Finally, we were out and walked straight into a festival with GreenDay sprouting out at full volume. Elise and Ginny were delighted, as had been singing it nonstop and had taught everyone on board all the words to ‘Boulevard of Broken Dreams’. We bought plenty of sweets and some of us went on a fairground ride, called power surge. Surprisingly, after being sick all day on the boat, no one was sick on the ride. Fiona won the award for being the most sick on board.


On Wednesday morning we finally got a lie in because we had made the decision to go to Ramsey instead of Whitehaven because it was a much shorter journey. Thankfully we didn’t have to eat whilst on the move so no cereal was spilt. We anchored off the shore of the small town of Ramsey and took the dinghy out to the harbour so we could wander round the town and visit the lifeboat station. In the lifeboat we were all told about different things about how they functioned and different ways of searching for people out at sea. There were three rooms on the life boat: the control room with all the technical stuff, the engine room which had to be checked every half hour while at sea to make sure everything was ok and the survivors cell which was a very cramp room with no windows so most saved people were taken into the control room so they were less frightened. All together it was very interesting and we also went shopping though mostly for sweets and returned to the boat.

By Elise, Izzy, Fiona and Ginny

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