town and can see what’s going on.
We stayed there a few days and then another couple,
then another couple. the blasted wind had picked up
again you see. I couldn’t get home any other way as there
was a petrol strike in the uK and nothing was moving. no
one to pick me up at airports etc.
When the wind did subside, we went for it, now
through fog! I don’t know which is more frightening -
sailing in a ‘pea souper’ or sailing with monsters! We
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took turns on deck listening and watching. the noise of a
foghorn on a tanker you can’t see, still haunts me today. It
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sort of helps which way to look as there are traffic lanes in
the channel like on our roads. this didn’t really make me
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feel that much better though at the time. at one point when
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the fog lifted for a couple of minutes, I glanced behind
to see what looked like a flotilla of tankers passing to the
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stern of us. We had gone straight through the middle of
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them! I felt physically sick.
eventually we spotted start Point lighthouse beaming
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away. hurrah! What I hadn’t realized is that you can see
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that light from almost mid channel!
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Was I ever going to get home?
sailing into Dartmouth at around 10pm was wonderful.
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I phoned my parents who had been on tenterhooks the
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entire couple of months we’d been away. You would have
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thought I’d just circumnavigated the globe single handed
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