The thought of not completing the trip through boat damage at this stage is too grim to contemplate!
So it was a great to be able to finally leave Ilfracombe yesterday.
We had to wait for the boat to float before we could drop the mooring and head off to Swansea.
As we were sitting on deck, a larger yacht pulled into the harbour and promptly ran aground.
They managed to reverse out, and I shouted across that we would float in 30 minutes and they should be ok after that.
They were very chatty, but ignored me and promptly ran aground for the second time. They reversed off but then tried again.
Surprise, surprise - they ran aground!
To my amazement they kept doing the same thing. Each time getting closer to the mooring buoy but running aground.
We joked and chatted to them. They were off to Portugal and seemed experienced sailors .... 'I was on the first yacht into Vilamoura marina in '76!'
However it made no sense to me why they did not wait and kept putting their boat under the stress of bumping the bottom.
I therefore felt extremely smug when we floated and executed a flawless exit - exactly 30 minutes after they had arrived!
Had a great sail across the Bristol
channel to Swansea and are now sitting in the huge marina here.
No sailing today and possibly tomorrow, owing to the weather.
Could have been short-term memory loss maybe ... or perhaps short-term memory loss.
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