My thanks to Nick, Kim, Tom & Dave who with myself made up the crew of the 2017 Tamar Summer Cruise Weekend (the weekend that became a week) Without you I would have been by myself.
My apologies to my ever patient wife Sue (who decided not to accept any invitations to come hovering) and was all but abandoned for 5 days (not nights) in favour of my my mates and my mistress Hovercraft. We did take her to Fowey on a very rainy Tuesday but I think that as she, like us was soaked by some very "wet" rain any attempts at gaining brownie points were lost
Guys, the weeks effort has finally caught up with me, I hurt like $£@# and can hardly move. was it worth it? YES YES YES, I had a wonderful time (apart from the thrust bearing failure bit) Saturdays inaugural trip to Burgh Island alone was a treat and was the furthest from Plymouth I have ever flown Gorspenyans. mind you it was probably the best weather I had encountered outside the breakwater too.
In contrast to a spring meeting on Loch Fyne holding a Hovercraft meeting in mid summer in Cornwall is going to put us in front of a lot of people. By enlarge the public loved our flotilla, being "invaded" by 4 or 5 Hovercraft will never get 100% approval and the odd sour puss did dampen our spirit, I have estimated we covered around 900 miles between [us], so once you put it into perspective over the 5 days we made it out on to the water we were well received (and well photographed) wherever we went.
Oh and just in case you are wondering, the Winter Cruise? Will it remain a for one day and one day only affair. Hell yes, have you been on the Tamar in winter?