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Now, I may not know a lot about the sea and things that float having spent my first nineteen years growing up and surviving in London, but one thing I do know is that for sail boats to sail; you need wind. Now; that wind can be strong and if that's so; the boats tend to go fast. Then again it can also be weak (known as a breeze) and then the boats tend to be a bit slower. But one way or the other there does need to be some of it regardless of what you call it.
Unfortunately on Saturday what Captain Sensible and his chums got did not have a name as there was none of it! The start of the Harbour Match was delayed for thirty minutes to see if the turbines on the Kentish Flats could be turned up to give a hand, but alas no. The boats jockeyed for position looking for a little breeze that would propel their craft into the distance. Changes were made to the sails, but still bugger all was happening. The crowds went home. The boats stayed where they were.
Then when nobody was looking or caring, whoosh off they went, the wind farm trick had worked.
Hours later the boats arrived back in the harbour, someone won, and someone else lost.
One boat flying the harp of Ireland came limping back with a bit bust (technical speak)on the sticky up thing (more technical speak). Pulling and tugging on the sticky up thing did not rectify the problem, so the person on the boat that was blamed for breaking it was sent up the sticky up thing to see if he could fix the problem. After pulling, pushing and banging all he managed to do was dislodge the harp flag at the top so it now pointed back to Ireland.
While waiting for something to happen during the Harbour Match, I noticed someone trying to go to sea in a clog!
Now as I freely admit, I know bugger all about sailing, rowing or for that matter swimming, but even I would not attempt to go to sea in a bloody clog, especially one that had a mind of it’s own as seen in the photographs below.
If anyone has seen someone venturing out to sea in an item of footwear other than a clog, please let me know, I would like to follow this up as it may be a new craze on the way and I would like to get in at the top with hammock surfing (Tom, I have a need for your stock, please contact ASAP so we don’t miss out)
