Hayling Island – Wednesday 1st October

So here we are back at home.  It’s been a lovely drying morning to get the washing sorted!  I am now unpacked – not just living out of suitcases as we usually do when we come home during the summer, properly unpacked and bags back in the loft.  Muffin has had a lovely walk on the beach and Richard is busy mowing the lawn.  Back to being landlubbers again!!

 

Mary H on the Tall Ships Cruise

Here are our statistics for this year alongside previous years

	2014	2013	2012	2011	2010
Miles	820	553	773	718	950
Locks	486	494	369	594	674
Swing Bridges	37	38	91
Average miles per day	6.72	6.07	6.6	7.2	8.1
Average locks per day	3.98	5.42	3.2	6.2	5.7
Days on board	122 days	91 days	116 days	109 days	117 days
Days cruising	96 days	87 days	84 days	94 days	n/a
Days not cruising	26 days	30 days	32 days	15 days	n/a

341 of this year’s miles were on the Thames which is probably why our miles per day are so high and our days off are a lot less than they should be!

We have made new friends and caught up with some old ones (well ones we have known for a while!) but we haven’t managed to catch up with everyone - maybe next year.

This winter will see Mary H having a bit of a makeover.  The galley is being redone and we are changing the colour scheme inside, hence the reason for choosing a marina near home this year.

A quick update on the ship’s cat, Millie.  She is one very spoilt land based cat now, loves her life as top cat and is loved by Mark :-)

So that’s all from the good ship Mary H and her intrepid crew for this year.  See you next year.

 

Mary H at Lechlade