You've met Bernie and Jenni in here before. Bernie is the man with a huge collection of interesting, sometimes elderly, cars and boats including Mimosa, a Dunkirk little ship that was in the film "Dunkirk" last year. Jenni is his way better looking partner. Beau is new to you but here is your introduction:
He is a Coton de Tulear and dead cute with a lovely temperament. Actually, Jenni tells us that he is 1/8th Bichon but we didn't hold that against him or call him a mongrel.
The three of them joined us the evening beforehand at Mayflower marina - it was kind of a quick B and B turnaround after Tim and Sheila who left that afternoon. The trip to Dartmouth was in grey slightly foggy conditions but very calm indeed. Bernie took a relaxed approach to helming:
Jenni had a more elegant approach despite wearing Bernie's pyjama trousers to keep warm:
although she did get rather unsubtle when her glass was empty:
Around Start Point the gloom cleared a bit and we were able to use the flybridge properly. Jenni and Beau had their own private space:
In keeping with the lighthouse and headland tradition, here is Start Point with that misty grey atmospheric look about it:
Notice how we avoid words like "dull" and "gloomy". We had arranged a berth in Dart marina, much easier for Beau to handle than the mid-river pontoon and dinghy trip that we normally have. The run was about 6 hours long in lovely motorboating sea conditions, just a shame about needing the radar from time to time. The boat behaved herself too.
After an excellent quality and value fish and chip supper in the Floating Bridge pub (as always) we all retired to catch up on sleep. Great trip, great crew. We like this boating business (luckily).
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