Sunday and Monday

On Sunday everyone arrived early as they were very excited except Aaron who wanted to be the odd one out, we received a warm welcome from all the staff and our parents got too look around the boat. We had a quick briefing and were straight in by cutting onions and potatoes, because of the onions our first day was already emotional, everyone thought we were crying because of our parents how wrong they were. We had bangers and mash for tea and it was actually really nice even though it had a few tear drops in it. We were already very noisy and were told to be quiet on many occasions, we were in bed by 10 and my dorm was asleep by 11. Even though everyone was shattered Mark woke everyone up to ask the time, we were meant to get up at 7 but Mark woke us up 6 we were not pleased. On Monday we were all up by 7:10 and were getting ready for the showers. While one room did the breakfast others went to have probably their only shower until Thursday. We then had to fill the boats with fuel so we were taught new knots and how to help park a boat onto a fuelling station. After we left, we went to the lock where the water was drained for us and we could get on to the estuary. While the others sat on deck steering out of the estuary, my dorm made ham and tuna mayo sandwiches, after we had eaten some biscuits and learned about the boat we were motoring down river Lune at about 12:30 we ate our sandwiches with some fruit. After we encountered some big cargo ships we all took shifts in taking care of the sails. At about 1:00 we had all our sails out and flying through the sea in the hot sun. By the time we started to slow down it was because we were getting close to Piel Island. We took down the sails and motored in. As we got very close we spotted some seagulls and then a small colony of Seals. Then anchored just off the castle, we had a very spicy chilli con carne which definitely woke everyone up. After dinner we are going to visit the castle.