Sailing..From a While Back

What up people of the Internet? How are you all doing this incredibly windy and wet evening. It might not be windy and wet where you are, in which case aren't you lucky, however in the Scottish highlands it most definitely is. So all the way back in early September, when it was dry and still light at 4pm, I went on my first racing weekend. I'd like to tell you that it went smoothly, without a hitch but I've only been on one of the possible four more after that.

So we turned up bright and early on the Saturday morning and got the boat set up, all going smoothly so far. Then we got on the water in fairly windy conditions, nothing we couldn't handle, and we sailed around for ever because they delayed the start time. We were still sailing around when there was a very loud crunch and the mast bent at forty five degrees. Now the guy I sail with has never, when I'm on the boat at least, panicked or freaked out until this point. As the mast wasn't being held up like it should we couldn't sail anywhere and were stranded out in the middle of the Solent. We managed, don't ask me how, to beach the boat and drag it out of the sea and it turned out that a shackle on the rigging had worn down so far it had just snapped. This caused the rest of the rigging to pull the mast way over the other side, thankfully it was an easily solved problem. The rescue boat was busy pulling a boat along that had a hole in it's hull and had completely filled with water and they managed to pull it half out of the water next to us. The sailors then had to sit there for the next few hours until the tide went out enough that they could empty the hull. We managed to create a temporary support for the mast to hold it in place.

One of the guys on the rescue boat decided that he knew more about diabetes than i did with comments like "You'll be the last to know you're fine" despite my repeated assurances that I was, with a blood sugar of 9.8, completely fine. I have never disliked someone so quickly in my life, he had no experience with diabetes while I had been living with it for 10 years and he had the nerve to tell me I didn't know what I was doing.

Anyway we sailed back to shore and attempted to go out for the third and final race of the day but the winds had picked up and we were not prepared for it. So that was the end of saturday.

We were sharing a tent with a couple of other people and I can honestly say it was the worst nights sleep I have ever had. One of them snored, not a snoring you could just ignore and block out this guy was like a thunderstorm and the rain pelting the tent was the icing on the cake.

In the morning my blood sugar was 20.2 not the worst it's ever been but not particularly good either and then I checked for ketones. 3.4 which then went up to 3.9! I haven't had an "incident" like that for years. Safe to say there wasn't any chance of me getting on a boat again that weekend. However awful that weekend was I learnt a hell of a lot and so on.

Rhona x

Sorry!

Hey everyone,
I wanted to promise you that I am not dead nor have I forgotten about you lovely lot. I started my A levels in September and my schedule has been craazy! I have 100 times more work than I did a year ago and its been a bit mental. Buut it's half term next week so I WILL write a new post, especially as I have so much to write about.

Rhona xx