Not as planned

[Garygee]

Hi folks

Due to only one person wanting to join us, andbeing the only boat we abandoned North Wales & did somthing more local.

Tha plan was a trip to the IOM.

So we all set of but conditions was not quite the force 2 forcast and after about 25 miles my son (age 7) decided enough was enough so we turned back and headed for Piel island for the day.

Nice & calm anchorage with lots to do.

The motly crew just before the water taxi collected us.

[Garygee]

One of the great attractions of Piel Island, the pub

[Garygee]

And a castle.

Think this was the best place for this group, behind bars, & not the drinking sort

[Garygee]

Ths kids was quite well behaved, pity we cant say that for everyone

[Garygee]

Anyway with a few hours to kill before we could get back into fleetwood marina we sat and watched other "Boaters" making a fool of themsevles.

Various people maganed to run aground on the same bit of sand bank one boat four time in a hour, one guy forget that you need to tie up your speedboat and after a very quick strip, went for a short swim to recover it.
He didnt redeam himself when he returned after several attempts at getting into the jetty managed to reverse over it with a very loud bump resulting.

but this made us laugh.

Trying to jump start a jet ski
If this failed which it did we was almost expecting tham to try and bump start it

We spend a very funny few hours watching people make total fools of themselves with boats.
Lets just hope we dont look like this to others

Regards Gary

[DGR]

Gary,

Looks like you had a good time even if you didn't stick to plan A (or B!!).

With the way the build looks like it's going at the moment, the Ribcraft might not be here as soon as I had hoped, and so I'm thinking of putting it in to Fleetwood for at least 6 months (from end July / early August I hope) - so hopefully you guys will be around for some cruising (IOM, North Wales etc) or just playing out later in the summer (and, of course, winter!!).

Cheers,

Dylan...