Hello is that the Canadian Coastguard?

The big attraction of staying at South Side Harbour was the proximity to the sea and the things that float that were at the house.

Rachel and Claire found out that they were potential medallists for London 2012 (No not kayaking....wine drinking !)

One day Rob and I rigged up the yacht and decided to put our extensive training and my 8 years in the Royal Navy to the test.

As you can see it was flat calm or at least it was when we started out. After gaining some confidence and looking like real sailors by spinning round the island and stopping the yacht, we decided it was time to take the kids out for a sail.

They loved it and we started to pick up speed as the wind picked up. We then thought we would sail along the coast and out of view of the ladies onshore. (This would turn out to be our first mistake) The wind picked up some more and the sails started to strain and we really were ripping along very quickly.

Time always goes quickly when you are enjoying yourself and we had forgotten we had been out of view of Rachel and Claire for over an hour. We had also failed to notice the Force 8 winds that had blown up.

We eventually sailed back from our epic voyage (Captain Cook eat your heart out) and into view of the house......we moored the yacht only to be informed that we had been literally only a few minutes away from having the Canadian Coastguard out. !!!! We laughed about it (well me and Rob did).