Sir, Madam You HAF SANK MY BATTLESHIP

My Baby Beached and Fugged, eeek the picture makes it look totalled, I am NOT SMILING NOW.
The MISSING BUNG located luckily by my camera.

Though seriously My recent Saturday Sailing turned into the Titanic meets McGuyver, with an Epic Flooding followed by repair work whilst moving that should have been filmed for Style alone

But let me head back to this early afternoon, when the Saturday Staff casually informed me they had never rigged the Challenger Trimaran Before, OK says I and we work through it, until it looks ship shape and they seem confident enough to launch me and so I am out on open water, circling an Ignored girl who had capsized and thus was awaiting somebodies attention for a rescue, when suddenly


My Butt and Feet are suddenly wet, yes HANDS UP who forgot the main BUNG, and to top it all, I start to steer towards the Slipway and the Rudder Rope breaks, so now no steering either, this is the Mcguyver bit as I steadily turned and inched my way across the stern to make up a new Rudder Rope using bits of gained strands of rope, I achieved this despite the back raging and me getting wetter with my Boat sinking further towards the rear

I was eventually rescued, by the Powerboat which promptly topped up my wetness with a wake that covered my sinking vessel and myself in more lake, almost as though we needed some more

Promptly then the boat plus me was hauled onto the jetty, which given the combined weight of the aforementioned created a lovely HOLE in the flotation on the left hand side and surely must have damaged main section and right hand flotation, Ho hum etc

anyway to finish off everything once I have had to 'hop' across the flotation to locate Dry Land thus popping my back in a strange and uncomfortable manner, was the slamming of my car door onto My most favorite of sprung walking sticks, creating a lovely Bend which means it does not fold down any more

All in all a day in which I should have stayed in bed

My favorite boat to sail is now not well, My stick is currently 4 inches shorter as I had to cut out the bent section, my trousers have only JUST dried and what should have been relaxing was in truth quite stressful


Still!!!!!!Onwards and Upwards, though nearly Downwards and very wet

Next Update as an when

Sailing AGAIN wednesday the 28th plus Squirrel

Above the Trimaran I use
Called Happy days

Oh yes again I am on the water and hopefully feeling the same freedom from it all

what a fantastic year so far and really its not even started yet


whoooo hooooooooo


oh and whilst here ABOVE a picture of my favorite Black Squirrel, Currently in need of re-naming as 'FANG THE KILLER NINJA SQUIRREL' seems just wrong

Sailing and the next MISSION

Well went second time today, but this time i was in the Trimaran which was simply great, it was windier and a little more choppy today so again fantastic in every way, got up some serious speed and also managed to get my tacking correct 99% of the time, though i openly confess to losing the plot for a split second and beaching myself in stunning fashion upon the Stevenage concrete banking



still only the once and the rest was seriously sweet sailing


Anyway the MISSION is now thus, to


1) Get £150 together for
2) R.Y.A. level 1 start sailing cert

followed by

1) Get £100 together for
2) R.Y.A. level 2 Basic skills cert

which then in a fantastic way leads onto

1) Getting £35 together for
3) start RACING COURSE

which Hopefully will lead to greater things

anyway its in dream stage at the moment, but it will happen, if only because i will make it happen


onwards....etc