Arwen's meanderings

Hi everyone and welcome to my dinghy cruising blog about my John Welsford designed 'navigator' named Arwen. Built over three years, Arwen was launched in August 2007. She is a standing lug yawl 14' 6" in length. This blog records our dinghy cruising voyages together around the coastal waters of SW England.
Arwen has an associated YouTube channel so visit www.YouTube.com/c/plymouthwelshboy to find our most recent cruises and click subscribe.
On this blog you will find posts about dinghy cruising locations, accounts of our voyages, maintenance tips and 'How to's' ranging from rigging standing lug sails and building galley boxes to using 'anchor buddies' and creating 'pilotage notes'. I hope you find something that inspires you to get out on the water in your boat. Drop us a comment and happy sailing.
Steve and Arwen

Saturday, 26 March 2011

....its looking good.......

Arwen is packed. She is on the road. She is hitched up to the car. Everything is tied down. The waterproofs have been dug out. Fresh batteries put in the handheld VHF and GPS. Done a quick trip over to Salcombe today to take a look around.
Have done my marking, performance management review and lesson planning this afternoon. Having calculated that the hours I could work on my 'outreach role' since September 2010 were 166 hrs and I've clocked up 193.5 hrs, I feel its time to take back some time for myself.
And so, for the first time ever during a normal school week, I am going to be a rebel!

I am going sailing on a Sunday, instead of working all through it.

This is a first. It has never happened before. It probably won't ever happen again. I shall feel guilty, I will need serious counselling. Seriously! After all I am a British teacher and as all British teachers know........we always work on Sundays!

Sadly, I cannot ever recall never working on a Sunday before during term time, and I've been teaching 27 years. Wow!

Steve

2 comments:

Brandon Ford said...

You go Steve! Let loose the rebel slacker inside you! (Just hope you can get him back inside.)

Brandon

steve said...

that's the trouble with being a public servant........you begin to think about all you could be doing more for exam groups......and before you know it....there goes another sunday....!