Well, although there wasn’t much wind today we did a fair amount of practising. After leaving the marina we practised mooring up on a training pontoon (so called pontoon bashing) a couple of times, which gave the boys a chance to take turns in stepping off and get the lines secured.

Then we moved back out on to the Solent and tacked repeatedly. Although the wind was very calm it was very repetitive and again a chance to practice something over and over again.

Finally, we did a number of man overboard drills (which freaked Helen out a bit!) – our fastest time was about 3m 55s.

Then into Lymington’s Berthon Marina to check out what was easily easily the poshest shower block in the Solent.