Thursday 12 June 2008

Such a sweet move

Also on Sunday, early on, we watered up at Berko. It required us pulling out of our mooring, which we were anxious to come back to, so we left early. We needed to go under the next bridge, moor up and fill up. There was no way to turn around to come back, let alone, turn around again on return to face the way of our journey. Pete had planned it. Elizabeth would be reverse tiller and he would put the engine in slow reverse. E is not not just bow thruster and sat nav, she is tiller. She stood at the bows with the boat pole in the water, moving it as if it was the tiller. However, Pete was such a dab hand at handling Bella in slow reverse, she was seldom needed. Such a sweet move! Back to 'our' space.