WE take the short route across the Mull of Kintyre through the Crinan Canal. It did not quite go to plan ----- About us ----- We have begun a liveaboard adve...

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I have entered the most alien terrifying

and frightening environment possible for

a sinner to be in I'm gonna kill him

all right come and help me because I've

got to get my back into this

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well this is the entrance for the

canal and this is the BS in the front of

the entrance we're currently tied up in

the middle of a thunderstorm and we've

just had the most almighty crack of

thunder and flash of lightning and to be

honest it's a bit closer than I like I

don't really have any way of moving at

all so I put up a bit

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after the rain was over we entered the

first lock of the canal but we were not

alone although there was a harbor and

Mearing field on sight critten the

marina appears to be in the canal system

where they managed that with fresh water

and salt water needing different anodes

i never did find out and how's it going

so far there's no sea room in here oh I

mean the clearances are measured in

centimeters what she doubts reading then

less than a meter under the keel but

there's no room to move everything's

tiny I mean the pontoon they give you

four tuples wouldn't fit one it's just

scary and there's trees and ferns and

all sorts of things sticking out I mean

it's not meant to be like this I have

entered the most alien terrifying and

frightening environment possible for a

sailor to be it

there's milk in here brother oh look at

that new appointee and it meters that's

good it's point-seven area was it okay

fair enough

Oh point seven hey that's your scary

stuff

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it's in the years we were just saying

that it's a very

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five-speed you know just so that we can

overtake ya just saying that we can

overtake of Destin's yeah exactly it's a

matter of pride can we overtake two

pedestrians do you know why I'm not sure

it is there one of these and somewhere

they're skinny

oh god it's terrifying yeah I think

we've just about overtaken us from that

I've but we have taken oh absolutely as

soon as we get to the locks you'll

easily overtake us

they take twenty minutes each did an

excellent job at helping us through

those locks okay thank you

oh well Beverly and I are at the top

printing canal and we had hoped to video

it for you back and tell you now we were

so busy sorting out lines getting lines

and all that sort of stuff and there was

only me and Bev on the on salty laughs

so it was a real case of do this do that

so lots and lots of things to do but

I've been told that going down is a

little bit easier because you don't have

the pressure of water so if it is easier

we will try and video that for you but

honest-to-goodness I was so busy today

there was no video win after day so this

is one of the fun and games we're gonna

have to go through tomorrow

so we've got a bridge which clearly

looks like a swing bridge just after the

bridge you have a lock

yeah you've got a swing bridge and then

you've got a lock so one or two things

just to keep you occupied with but the

main reason we are here is just down

there is the pub well if you're going to

go to the pub which is really a hotel

you need to book the restaurant and not

think like we did that come on spec we

did think it was a pub but it's a hotel

it's not a pub at all

but anyway so having a meal out we're

gonna have some meal on stall tonight

it's gonna be absolutely super tasty

anyway it's gonna be super tasty but

honest-to-goodness we've only done the

up blocks and we're both shattered Oh

so there you have it the pasta served

with some chorizo garlic slice and of

course as far as I'm concerned after a

day like this a huge class of hi but I

have to say that looks pretty good

are you doing smithy absolutely gal we

stopped for the night in the highest

part of the canal it would be able to

own Hill from here literally

is covered we had used tea tree oil to

repel them and inside we were migi free

the first job of the day was to prepare

the next lock well they're salty laughs

and bears going to get her sorted well

she's getting salty last sorted I'm

getting the locks all right come on help

me because I've got to get my back into

this I've basically got a track shift

the gate Oh is it moving come on you

need to put more effort in you need to

help make as a car do you old moon Oh

nope

if one lock fails go and try the other

one

and Oh clearly this one's all right

because it's actually moving but you

really do need to get your back into it

and if you're a girl like us you've

always got to remember that your legs

are as strong as men's your arms might

be as weak

as anything but your legs are as strong

as men's so make sure you're doing all

the weight and the lifting with your

legs which is why I'm a backs to it and

I'm moving my legs so that's the lock

all prepped what God do now is wait for

Beverly she will be sending you passing

me the lines I will be putting them on

these various pins have you got your

lines ready for this lock before line on

the keys no just winch it in today's to

let it go right but it's on the winch

and I can jam it in so I can do that

yeah cuz when we were coming up you need

to pull it in whereas yeah so you were

dealing everything but now because we're

going down you've got to let things off

yeah so that's the plan let's try and do

in reality shall we okay okay it's only

because I put one I filled the lock up

really fast and yeah but because we're

going down it shouldn't be as much of a

problem but

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the only reason she can do what she's

doing at the moment is there's

absolutely no wind and also there's as

well as no wind although clearly there

is a little bit wind anyway I better

anyway that's hard any wind and but I'm

going to have to go going because I've

got loads today

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Yassir Everly's on the lines as you can

see she's got one line for head that

she's controlling on the winch on one

line at the back which she's got so the

one on the winch is down here it's got a

full double Bowl in there so that that's

sorted and then that's going forward

turn that one over there so that's

coming all the way back and they've

stuck there it's just so that she can

control the lines as we go down this

walk

as we approached a man lock a Motor

Lodge zip passes and then beard up on

the port side as the staff at no marine

radios we had to shout as we approached

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followed a hectic session of setting our

extra ropes and fenders because we had

nothing on the starboard side

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I'll enjoy

luckily for us once we had lines fenders

and locks tafsir tonight it went

smoothly and we were on the final

stretch to the basin at the c-loc no I

don't think so

but yeah we can see the sea house reset

it's a very welcome sight as far as Bev

and I are concerned

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