Sunday, July 03, 2005
Sail 8
"Worse things happen at sea," Granny used to say when I was growing up and I used to wonder what she was talking about.
This weekend I finally found out when I got sent on a stormy 14-hour Channel crossing to report on Sail 8, Bob Geldof's bid to bring French G8 protesters to Britain on a flotilla of boats.
I left Gosport on Friday night bound for Cherbourg with the four-strong crew of the Supertaff yacht. Heavy weather turned back many other boats and the four that did make it found no-one waiting to travel back with them.
Click here or here to read more, watch South Today tomorrow to see more or listen to Five Live or the Radio Solent breakfast show.
"Worse things happen at sea," Granny used to say when I was growing up and I used to wonder what she was talking about.
This weekend I finally found out when I got sent on a stormy 14-hour Channel crossing to report on Sail 8, Bob Geldof's bid to bring French G8 protesters to Britain on a flotilla of boats.
I left Gosport on Friday night bound for Cherbourg with the four-strong crew of the Supertaff yacht. Heavy weather turned back many other boats and the four that did make it found no-one waiting to travel back with them.
Click here or here to read more, watch South Today tomorrow to see more or listen to Five Live or the Radio Solent breakfast show.
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