Busy Thursdays

The sun is here as the basin has got busy.  After a fibreglass repair that has taken weeks we have fifty back on the water (now 51 shades if blue).  She's taking a bit of getting used to again.

Now its sunny the Basin are running kids sailing lessons on Thursday evenings - it adds to the fun, last week Paul and Will did exercises on the pontoon to give us something to watch as we went past - not sure why but it livened things up.

This week there were more sailing boats and they had the safety power boat out and were using it to create waves.  Now imagine the 2 of us slightly wobbly in the very tippy boat.  Then imagine the waves coming at us beam ends on.  We survive that and then the waves bounce back of the edges, bigger.

We paddled and we giggled (ok mainly Sarah) and we kept paddling (and in Sarah's case giggling) and then we did an excellent half roll.

After attempting to climb back in (a bad idea the boat is kinda fragile and bends) we swam the boat to the steps got back in and as that was the 2nd swim and the waves were staying we swapped to a more stable boat (to be honest a slipper is more like an old town than a IC2).  Round and round a few more times.  Esther had lead arms this evening but Sarah was nasty and would not let her get out of the boat.  They were slow laps but we put the time in.

One thing we notice now is how cold we get when we stop paddling so wet as well it was a quick dash to the showers

We're off to France this weekend on a club paddling trip on the Canche - hopefully fun sun and good red wine.