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If we appear to be aground, the crew is probably on a run ashore!

16/10/08 20:00:  The ship is back in her mudberth at Brunswick Wharf, East-the-Water.

11/10/08 16:00:  The ship moved 200 yds north along the quay, to make space for a freighter due Sunday.

1/10/08 18:00:  The ship will remain alongside Bideford Quay until around 11 October, when the plan is to do the Brest run to collect the cargo.

30/09/08 06:00: Currently alongside Bideford Town Quay for another two nights, to avoid adverse weather. We now plan to slip the berth on the Thursday morning flood tide, in order to clear the new Torridge Bridge and then cross the Bar.

29/09/08 19:00:  Slipped Brunswick Wharf and moved across to Bideford Quay for the night.

29/09/08 06:00: Alongside Brunswick Wharf, East-the-Water, awaiting this evening's high tide.

Still in Port

The Kathleen and May remains in port.  We moved her up the quay last night, to make room for a freighter, which is due in later today.

There will be an update to the sailing plan, once it is known, but we are unlikely to sail until the end of the week (17th October).

Some Hae Meat

A very big thank you to Keith Heason at Higher Hacknell Organic Farm for donating a large BBQ Box of organic sausages and burgers to the crew of the Kathleen and May for this trip.  We'll eat like kings!

Some hae meat and cannae eat

Some would eat that want it

But we hae meat and we can eat

Sae let the Lord be thankit

More Gale Warnings

Given the current equinoctial gales, we'll not be leaving port this week.

We're now on Plan B, which is to do the Brest run later this month.

Gales ...

Given the current gales wracking the country we are still in port.

The forecast is for them to abate overnight, giving us a window to break out over Bideford Bar and make Weymouth well before the next front sweeps through on Saturday.

Windy old weather - and a slight change to the sailing plan...

There has been a slight change to the sailing plan. Given the above forecast conditions, we will now sail over Bideford Bar on Thursday morning and make for Weymouth on Saturday, to rendezvous with the cargo. More adverse conditions are forecast for the weekend so we may now have to shelter from the storm in Weymouth/Portland for 36 to 48 hours, in order to make London on time. More details once they are clear.

Bideford-Cherbourg-London-Brest-Bideford October 2008

This is proposed itinerary in association with Fair Wind Wines and CTMV.

	Depart	Arrive
Bideford to London (via Cherbourg)	29 September 2008	5 October 2008
St Katherine Dock (Wine Tasting)	6 October 2008	10 October 2008
London to Brest	11 October 2008	17 October 2008
Brest (Cargo Loading)
Brest to Bideford	19 October 2008	25 October 2008
Bideford Quay (Unloading)

All the above dates are subject to change at short notice, as we are dependent on tides and weather windows.