Wet n Windy

It was fusion of two hobbies - motorcycling and sailing when our friends Janet and Andy joined me for a sail on the boat last weekend. Both had expressed an interest to have a go but it was the usual juggling of comittments, free time and the weather to try to make it happen.

Three adults in boat was a bit of a squeeze, particularly at first when I was trying to turn the boat around and didn't quite know where to place the tiller, but we soon got into the swing of it and had a good afternoons sailing. Andy took to it suprisingly well and the trip wet his appetite for another session this weekend. It wasn't only appetites that were wetted though as we had a dry capsize which led to Andy getting a little wet and me jumping out of the boat as it approached the shore thinking it was less deep that it actually was!! The link between motorbikes and boats? Well it's typical for bikers to demonstrate their prowess by doing a "donut" with the bike - so Andy thought he would try it with the boat and we did a full 360 degree turn whilst trying to tack.

Carol and Janet will be shore side this week though so expect some pictures from the event - hopefully before they consume all of the wine they are going to take with them. It was a bit of a rush to get up to Mom's last Saturday night and we were exhausted by the time we got there. A days shopping at the Bullring on Sunday to get some clothes for our holiday including shorts and fleeces etc.

The week has been busy with me staying away a few nights this week. Carol went out with the Blog Totty - but they didn't invite me, strange that ... and we watched Robbie Williams in concert on the new Telly to give us a warm up for the concert at Milton Keynes next week.

Slightly boring day today housework and cleaning cars, but I did go to the Gym and managed a very respectable 1 minute 55.5 seconds average per 500m (over a distance of 5000 metres) on the rowing machine which is an improvement on the 2.05 I started at.

Sailing tomorrow weather permitting and the Southampton Boat Show next weekend - just have the little matter of a weeks work in between that , but eh never mind