symondo
Well-Known Member
Cispite my other thread on the hearing problem
The mrs and i spent the first night for either of us on the water friday!
Was flat calm, lovely weather, boat was toasty. Happily sat outside til late just enjoying the peace on the rear deck.
Sleeping however.... going to take a few goes to find a comfy way about as i ended up sleeping on the floor instead of 1 of the berths.
I did however find it a little disorientating waking up facing a different direction as it was a swinging mooring. But pretty awesome to open the rear door and have breakfast in the sunshine sat on the bow.
Our tutor for the day tirned up so went to collect him in the tender, and got down to business....
Seemed to learn a lot fairly quickly in terms of the general physics of movement and momentum pretty quickly and had a good few goes at mooring on a pontoon, getting close, backing away, turning on the spot, how to counter movement etc...
All in was getting quite into it, even the mrs was loving doing the ropes
Unfortunately our lesson got cur short due to the heating issue in my other thread. So we ended up putting her back onto the mooring with 1 engine.
Managed to get our tutor and general stuff back to shore before heading back out to be lazy and grab some lunch and enjoy 'the life'
Bad move.... the heavens opened, wind pocked up a bit more just in time for our tender trip back to shore. By the time i had the tender out of the water, we were soaked through BUT we both felt quite proud of our efforts and ledt feeling rather good about our experience.
So much so, when my mother manages to sell my dads boat, we are hoping to aim for 1 ourselves. 100% sold on the idea.
In the meantime I'm hoping to get more practise in while its in the water and also make the use of our own 16ft boat for fishing
The mrs and i spent the first night for either of us on the water friday!
Was flat calm, lovely weather, boat was toasty. Happily sat outside til late just enjoying the peace on the rear deck.
Sleeping however.... going to take a few goes to find a comfy way about as i ended up sleeping on the floor instead of 1 of the berths.
I did however find it a little disorientating waking up facing a different direction as it was a swinging mooring. But pretty awesome to open the rear door and have breakfast in the sunshine sat on the bow.
Our tutor for the day tirned up so went to collect him in the tender, and got down to business....
Seemed to learn a lot fairly quickly in terms of the general physics of movement and momentum pretty quickly and had a good few goes at mooring on a pontoon, getting close, backing away, turning on the spot, how to counter movement etc...
All in was getting quite into it, even the mrs was loving doing the ropes
Unfortunately our lesson got cur short due to the heating issue in my other thread. So we ended up putting her back onto the mooring with 1 engine.
Managed to get our tutor and general stuff back to shore before heading back out to be lazy and grab some lunch and enjoy 'the life'
Bad move.... the heavens opened, wind pocked up a bit more just in time for our tender trip back to shore. By the time i had the tender out of the water, we were soaked through BUT we both felt quite proud of our efforts and ledt feeling rather good about our experience.
So much so, when my mother manages to sell my dads boat, we are hoping to aim for 1 ourselves. 100% sold on the idea.
In the meantime I'm hoping to get more practise in while its in the water and also make the use of our own 16ft boat for fishing