Bob & I with father
The race boat - outside my childhood home
Motor / skiing
F3 Champion Water Ski Racing
England to France and back in 1 hour 9
Canoe
Thanks Father.
He bought Bob & I dilapidated wooden canoes. Which we then rebuilt.
I've canoed all over the place.
Rivers, Sea, Abroad.
Canoed to France and back once. It took longer than an hour 9. ;-)
Carlos
This was my Windy 35 HT.
Used her a lot.
Slept 6, showers and toilet plus kitchen on board, bar-b-que on the back deck.
She was known all over the lake.
Every weekend. She was out either cruising, laying or pulling skiers (2 or 3 at a time).
R.M.V. Scillonian II
(Royal Mail Vessel)
I hated this bitch. I wasn't alone.
The trip between Penzance and St Mary's is notoriously choppy. Serious. The ship doesn't sail in winter.
Scillonian II was a rolling ship. I wasn't a good sailor as a kid and this thing rolled and pitched about like hell. I would spend my time on her hunkered down in her bowels. As low as I could get - where it rolled less.
It wasn't just me that suffered.
https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/ShowTopic-g186309-i1326-k4203135-Penzance_St_Marys_Ferry_Sea_Sickness-Isles_of_Scilly_England.html
The chopper was a real alternative but expensive. Seems they now have a plane too.
https://www.islesofscilly-travel.co.uk/
Even the Captain was once taken off to a waiting ambulance.
Ask any woman. Being wet is where it's at.
Can't hear people's senseless yacking for a start.
I have been very lucky. Most of my diving has either been Middle or Far East, or Maldives. I've done lots of it. Night, Deep, V Deep, Rescue, OSA.
Different gases (Air, Nitrox, Trimix, Heliox), different depths, different reasons.
Have even been deep enough for long enough to have to use a Decompression Chamber.