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At 5 am on Friday 24th August a bloke called Anton who I'd only met for 5 minutes arived at my house in readiness for a weekend which we were to spend in each others very close company!
Woodvale Challenge the race organisers had arranged a training row for those crews that were interested from Newlyn (next to Penzance) to the Scilly Isles.
With boat in tow behind the mighty HiLux an 8 hour getting to know you conversation ensued as we journeyed to Newlyn. All the time fingers crossed that we I had not bought a lemon and that it would not blow up on the M5.
On arrival in Newlyn we quickly changed the boats VHF aerial which had been snapped off for a new much longer one (the only one available in the nearby chandlers) in preparation for the row. It was good to see 3 other crews who had been on my sea survuval and navigation courses also there.
After putting the boats on the water and a quick briefing it was 11pm and time for our first nights sleep on the boat. I was not particulalrly looking forward to this as Anton is well over 6 foot and the cabin is just over 6 feet long and 4 feet wide. Surprisingly once we both managed to get in side it was remarkably comfortable.
After an all too brief sleep considering we had only had 3-4 hours sleep the previous day we were up at 3am for breakfast and preparing the boat in order to catch the tide by 6am.
Woodvale Challenge the race organisers had arranged a training row for those crews that were interested from Newlyn (next to Penzance) to the Scilly Isles.
With boat in tow behind the mighty HiLux an 8 hour getting to know you conversation ensued as we journeyed to Newlyn. All the time fingers crossed that we I had not bought a lemon and that it would not blow up on the M5.
On arrival in Newlyn we quickly changed the boats VHF aerial which had been snapped off for a new much longer one (the only one available in the nearby chandlers) in preparation for the row. It was good to see 3 other crews who had been on my sea survuval and navigation courses also there.
After putting the boats on the water and a quick briefing it was 11pm and time for our first nights sleep on the boat. I was not particulalrly looking forward to this as Anton is well over 6 foot and the cabin is just over 6 feet long and 4 feet wide. Surprisingly once we both managed to get in side it was remarkably comfortable.
After an all too brief sleep considering we had only had 3-4 hours sleep the previous day we were up at 3am for breakfast and preparing the boat in order to catch the tide by 6am.
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