A week of remarkable cooking and culinary delights, Chris creates..... 

first it is roast beef with ALL the trimmings (those yorkshire puddings were made on board from base ingredients)

then roast gammon, all in a little camping oven with 2 top burners













....and Pete enjoys!!

During our first days heavy sail out to an island called Inishboffin, Pete was thrown by a wave whilst down below into the side of a bunk and broke two ribs. The hazards of sailing I'm afraid. Happily they were the ribs round the back and not too painful except when he laughed or sneezed, with Chris's sense of humour on board Pete had to have a bottle of medicinal red wine permanently to hand! You can't tell from the photo but Chris has just had a face full of Irish Sea.













Inishboffin is a beautiful island, part rugged and part soft with beautiful beaches.














On our way in we landed a bucket full of Mackerel; Pete had some very interested visitors when he filleted them.

Pete has recently got his Yachting Association day skippers qualification. As part of his broader yachting education, not satisfied with just some broken ribs, I felt he ought to have a taste of the 'other side' of yachting. Guessed? The second toilet packed up (you may remember that the first  'forward' toilet packed up a while ago with blocked piping and was relegated to liquids only), this made the second 'aft' toilet pretty important! That is the pump casing that Pete has in his hand, note he is still smiling!

Unfortunately the fix has not been an easy one and not yet succesfull. I tried to get a spare part in time for Paul to bring it out but being friday afternoon we couldn't make it happen in time. The problem is with an internal rubber valve which is out of shape and is currently in the vice being left under pressure in the hopes that it will re-flattenand become serviceable again. I think it will work, until then Messrs Bucket and Chuchit are on hand!




There are Atlantic Salmon on the west coast. In order to preserve numbers up the estuarys they have to fish the old fashioned way. Nothing has changed here in hundreds of years! On a bad day they will get none, on a good day 100.

 From Inishboffin we sailed back to the coast and up one of Irelands fjords, stunning scenery, these mountains rose 2500 feet straight out of the water on all sides

Here I dropped Pete and Chris and spent a day walking in the mountains whilst I wait for Paul.