Tuesday, September 13, 2005

Yaaaargh! Ahoy Mateys!

Yes, I've been sailing for the past few days with Abi, Andy, Gwen and Gwen's grandad. And yes, I did on occasion utter somewhat piratical phrases. That was me getting into the spirit. Ahem.

Of course, we were not engaged in actual piracy. Nor, for the most part, actual sailing. Due to an unfortunate lack of wind we only really managed to use the sails once, and on that day the weather was so extreme that we only stayed out for a relatively short while before heading back to our berth.

While we didn't *crash* the boat per se, there was an incident with a lock. We entered while there was still a great deal of turbulence and ended up at the mercy of the swirling waters. That meant that the back of the boat smashed (see, not crashed...) into the side of the lock, snapping a wooden board holding a motor (for the dinghy) in place. Nothing too drastic, although it was rather embarrassing hopelessly swirling around with the lock master shouting at us to get tied up!

So I'm back, and ready to start updating again. Yaaaargh!

4 comments:

crazy/evil/chocoholic/crazy-girl said...

....
i have nothing to add to that

will update soon - with piccies :D

Abi said...

^ What she said.

Anonymous said...

waitin for piccies................

kimberlina said...

fyi: monday the 19th is talk like a pirate day!