sb99
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Our first major cruise (To us) saw us venturing to Watchet from our base in Cardiff.
We were in a convoy of 6 boats of various sizes
We set off at 11.30 and all was well for the first half mile
Then things got a bit rougher and we had a very slow crossing due to the poor sea conditions managing only 7 Knots most of the way. Me and another boat lost the 4 bigger boats and decided to take it a bit easy.
Despite slowing both my kids were sea sick and to be honest it turned out to be a baptism of fire and had we known then what we know now we wouldn’t have attempted crossing.
Anyway we persevered and finally arrived at our destination approximately 45 minutes behind the other 4. A journey time of 2 and a half hours.
Glad we did as we met some great people and had plenty to talk about over a pint and a meal in the evening.
Our journey back was a much more pleasant experience which saw us leave out pontoon in Watchet at 11.45am and lock in at Cardiff barrage at 12.45.
Kids and wife's confidence restored /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Overall we had a great weekend and can’t wait to set out again.
Anyway here’s some photo’s
The photo's are of us on our way back. There was no way I was asking the wife to get the camera on the way over /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif
We were in a convoy of 6 boats of various sizes
We set off at 11.30 and all was well for the first half mile
Then things got a bit rougher and we had a very slow crossing due to the poor sea conditions managing only 7 Knots most of the way. Me and another boat lost the 4 bigger boats and decided to take it a bit easy.
Despite slowing both my kids were sea sick and to be honest it turned out to be a baptism of fire and had we known then what we know now we wouldn’t have attempted crossing.
Anyway we persevered and finally arrived at our destination approximately 45 minutes behind the other 4. A journey time of 2 and a half hours.
Glad we did as we met some great people and had plenty to talk about over a pint and a meal in the evening.
Our journey back was a much more pleasant experience which saw us leave out pontoon in Watchet at 11.45am and lock in at Cardiff barrage at 12.45.
Kids and wife's confidence restored /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif
Overall we had a great weekend and can’t wait to set out again.
Anyway here’s some photo’s



The photo's are of us on our way back. There was no way I was asking the wife to get the camera on the way over /forums/images/graemlins/laugh.gif