Tuesday 28 April 2009

Finally getting round to putting fingers to the keyboard after an excellent weekend out on the boat - yes we went sailing yee ha! We had 5 excellent young sailors by the names of Daisy, Dan, Harriet, Jack and Tom. Friday evening was fish and chips night for Cath and I with Harriet, Dan, Jack, and the Trust's Tracy and Simon T. It was then an Uno marathon - with Harriet doing rather better than everyone and everyone else doing miles better than me! At least with 2,500 miles to sail on the boat and evening stop overs I should at least manage to win one game?!

Daisy and Tom arrived Saturday morning and brought with them both sun and wind. Unfortunately slightly too much wind as we motored down to Yarmouth praying to the wind gods for slightly less breeze for Sunday. However, this breeze was put to good use on the playing field when we eventually managed to untangle the kite!! What a perfect evening flying the kite, watching the sun go donw and a great rendition of 'Let's go fly a kite' from Mary Poppins by Jack.

Sunday dawned and out prayers had been answered - tremendous sunshine and just enough breeze - how excited were we!! Frank soon arrived with photographers, video men, the sail makers. It was all go - think one of the funniest moments of the weekend for Dan being the photographer looking slightly worried whilst being hoisted up the mast to film Dan!

Land photos finished we headed out for the first hoist of our sails. Oh the joys of electric winches!! Main up, genoa out heading west towards the Needles in a wonderful breeze with the sun shining - it doesn't get much better than that! Loads of photos and video later our five excited sailors were taken off the good ship Scarlet to be ribbed back to Cowes for more photo shoot / interviews.

Cath and I had then had a wonderful sail back to Cowes on our new home for the next 5 months. Our excited young sailors, I think had a ball and are all very excited about the trip. Good luck to those who have exams between now and when we next see you - hopefully my Uno skills will be better!

Until then
Karen Out

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