Good Morning Early Birds!

[waterboatman]

Monday. It's wet, but not raining. The wind has finally dropped. I can put everything back where it belongs now...again!

Not much to do today, but I'm sure I'll find something. The rest of the week is looking lively though!

Have a happy day everyone.

[murraymints]

We used to sail with the Quiberon, a French crew from Plymouth to Santander then drive for 2 days down to our holiday home in the Algarve..terrible crossing ..Bay of Biscay was always wild

[waterboatman]

Always used Townsend Thoresen from Dover if going to Germany, Sealink from Portsmouth for France, Spain etc.

[waterboatman]

Biscay is always wild. It has three thousand miles of water coming into a bay. It can get really hairy.

[murraymints]

me and boats do not get on and any crossing would be bad for me !!

[GenuineclAss]

Not a brilliant sailor myself, minty, so try to stay in the middle where there's less rocking and try to keep the same rhythm, to help my stomach stay centred. My poor Mum could've got sick in a rowing boat!

[waterboatman]

I know that my lovely. xxx :o}

One time I was going down that way I had to go 200 miles out to avoid Biscay,

[murraymints]

hate wee rowing boats !

[waterboatman]

St. Georges Channel can be like that too. You have the Irish sea, The Severn estuary, the English Channel and the Atlantic, all going in different directions at once!

[GenuineclAss]

I was supposed to have done rowing at school, but because of my size I never got to row. I was always the cox! (I also have a very loud voice - my Mum always said I'd be destined for the stage, as my voice carries. I don't need a microphone. But I also have to be careful what I say in public, as a person a hundred feet away might hear me!)
Sounds almost like a Perfect Storm, WBM!

[murraymints]

we built and sailed canoes at school...had to learn the Eskimo roll etc...hated it !

[waterboatman]

It can get 'exciting' alec!

Time to make a move. Have a happy day everyone.

[murraymints]

bye boaty xx best go run roon the shower see if it makes me feel less zombie like ..see you all later xx

[GenuineclAss]

I would've hated that too, minty. I try and stay above water if at all possible. I'm sure I drowned or suffocated in some way in a past life. I can't even stand the bedcovers over my face. I have to breathe cold air.

[GenuineclAss]

Bye y'all. Will take Rufus out before the inevitable delluge!