A note from Daddy

Richard was clipped onto the jackstay -  which is a safety line designed to keep you on the boat. The rule for the boys is that if the boat is not tied up then they are. They wear a lifejacket and safety line whenever they are on deck, and only go out dependant on the conditions and parental approval. He was sat down when we crossed the Queen Mary 2's wash, as were both other boys and although the boat did bounce up and down at a good angle and he could look down into the sea he was never in any danger of falling off.

It was quite exciting though.

From November 6th...

we used the engines to go down the Exe Estuary it was like a jigantonuoouummmuusss dot to dot because we had to follow the buoys.   

That night we stayed at Torquay we luvyluvyluvyluuvyluuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuved it.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                

We woke up early to get going to Portland across  Lyme Bay and around Portland Bill. the trip around Portland race was ixxxxeriblaleauscious which means  really really really terrible in a really really really bad way because it was bumpier than a bumpy thing in bumpyland in a bumpy car on a bumpy road reading 6 newspapers at once.

The Quarries are still active quarrying up there we can still see the old tracks they used to get Portland stone from the top of the hill to the bottom, then onto the mighty ships to everywhere even America and New Zealand.

We loved the 5th of November, we went to Weymouth for bonfire night, it was really really really exciting.                                         
                                     

REMEMBER REMEMBER THE 5TH OF NOVEMBER GUNPOWDER TREASON AND PLOT THERE IS NO REASON WHY GUNPOWDER TREASON SHOULD EVER BE FORGOT.....

From Cowes to Haslar 24.11.11

I was sitting on the front deck of the boat then suddenly Queen Mary II'S Pilot boat came up really really really  f a s t  with his Big sea blue lights flashing all over the place, he said please can you bear away to  starboard and one minute later Queen mary II came along she made such A really Big disturbance that I nearly        off the front of the boat.
                                                                       fell
I could see into the oggin.