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biggs682

Itching to get back on my bike's
Location
Northamptonshire
Right just going out for a ride
 

Jameshow

Veteran
Right just going out for a ride

Bit late aren't you?!! 🚴🚴🚴
 

oldwheels

Legendary Member
Location
Isle of Mull
Grey morning with sun trying to break through the cloud cover. No idea what today's weather will be but I suspect showers again.
Saw a lone yacht in the Sound yesterday. By this time most will be out of the water for the winter as probably only insured afloat till end of September. Perhaps a straggler stormbound somewhere with the recent gales and trying to get back to base.
The Sound of Mull is an unpredictable place to sail at the best of times but in bad weather can be a nightmare as winds of variable strength and direction can hit at any time.
Nearest I ever came to disaster was about 6 weeks after having a kidney removed I had a learner on the helm of my Wayfarer dinghy when a gust hit us and the learner held on to the main sheet. I saw water beginning to lap over the lee gunnel and my thought was " If we go over I am dead and I should really be sitting by the fire with my feet up". Fortunately her foot slipped and she fell and let go of the main and rudder and we came upright into the wind. Great dinghy the Wayfarer. She was called Uisg meaning gull.
 
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