Friday 24 August 2001. We head back to Mevagissy, having had to cut short our stay there on our first day on discovering there was no available room at the inn. Or B+B... Or boatshed which is their equivalent of a stable...
Once again I screw my nerves up and drive along the narrow road with the sheer drop to the sea water and marine fuel mix that fills the harbour to the car park at the end.
Mevagissy's harbour has enough going on though, for us to ignore the weather. In fact for most of the week the entire country is bathed in glorious sunshine except for ... Cornwall.
The old lifeboat is being restored. The current one is a bit more orange and low slung and quite a bit less ancient. I have every respect for lifeboat crew who, regardless of the danger to themselves, will go out in all weathers to the aid of people in distress at sea whether it be through wind, sea conditions, mechanical breakdown or sheer stupidity.
As Registrar of a Nautical College I have been under instruction at the controls of a rigid inflatable fast rescue craft as it left the top of a 30 foot (9.14 metre) wave to sudddenly drop like a stone. I know how frightening that can be in what suddenly seems a very small boat indeed.
They have some very strange stuff in some of the shops here... Though I'm betting this chap wasn't caught lurking off the coast of Mevagissy!
It had started to rain. We had a coffee in a harbourside cafe hoping that the rain would stop and the sun would come out, but when it didn't we returned to the car.
We sa in the car for a while and I attempted to sketch the buildings on the far side of the harbour but they were too far away to see any detail and the rain running down the car windscreen didn't help much. Join us next time for a look at some wonderful musical machines!
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