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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you