Tonight, Rob and Elwyn gave me a great gift. A night on Dusky Dolphin. Last one was over six months ago, as I battled to recover from my tonsillectomy in time for my first knee replacement. That was an age ago. Since then I have been to hell and back again as I battled the slow, mostly silent battle of the knee replacement journey.

Well tonight that journey ended.

And my journey to be the sailor I was always meant to be, but couldn’t because of my bad knees and nasty, nasty unpredictable fevers from my nasty tonsils, has now begun.

Thank you Rob and Elwyn, and Dusky Dolphin of course. You have been the most patient of all:-)