{"id":9930,"date":"2017-11-15T21:11:38","date_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9930"},"modified":"2017-11-15T21:11:38","modified_gmt":"2017-11-15T21:11:38","slug":"wednesday-15th-november-2017-it-was-busy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lesguis.com\/wp\/?p=9930","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday 15th November 2017 – IT WAS BUSY …"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"grma<\/a>… down in the harbour today.<\/p>\n

I was out for a walk around the cliffs today and there in the distance I noticed the arrival of our old friend the Grima<\/em>. And so I quickly scuttled on round to the other side of the promontory to watch her come into port.<\/p>\n

There wasn’t anything piled up on her dock so I hadn’t been expecting her to arrive today.
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\"grima<\/a>I’d never actually seen her come into harbour … "yes you have" – ed<\/em> … and so I was keen to see her come sailing … "dieseling" – ed<\/em> … into port.<\/p>\n

She was carrying the usual load of scrap, including a white van something like a VW Caddy. And so I’ll have to go down to the port tomorrow to see what she’s fetched over from Jersey.<\/p>\n

And, more to the point, what she’s actually going to be taking back because I’m sure that she wouldn’t find a one-way trip all that profitable. She’s need a return load.
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\"combattant<\/a>And my luck was certainly in this afternoon.<\/p>\n

You probably noticed in the previous photograph that there was another ship on the horizon looking as if it was about to come into port.<\/p>\n

And you wouldn’t be wrong in that assumption because chugging into port behind Grima<\/em> came Combattant<\/em>. And she’s vertainly new to us here in Granville. I’ve not seen her here before.
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\"combattant<\/a>She seems to spend all of her working life out along the north-east coast of the Cotentin peninsula working her way around places like Cherbourg and Dieppe, and has come here from Le Havre.<\/p>\n

I thought that she might have been another gravel boat, but she is actually much smaller than they are – at just 55 metres. <\/p>\n

But nevertheless, watching her negotiate the chicane into the port was quite interesting and quite a feat of seamanship.
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\"combattant<\/a>As we admire her passing through the harbour gates, I couldn’t see what she was carrying. Or what she was taking away either because she didn’t tie up at the gravel dock but at one of the fishing quays<\/p>\n

But whatever it was she’s come here to fetch, it won’t be much because she’s only rated at 668 tonnes and you won’t go far with that.<\/p>\n

And much to my surprise, she’s quite an elderly ship – dating from 1977. And she looks it too
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I’d had another bad night, despite going to bed early. Head cold again prevented me from going to sleep and it woke me up at about 05:15 too, so all in all it was a disappointment. No wonder I’ve spent most pf the day crashed out on the sofa feeling ill.<\/p>\n

But I’ve done some more tidying up on the shelves in the kitchen and it’s looking quite good on there now. Plenty of space for everything now.<\/p>\n

And then we had our afternoon walk.<\/p>\n

Tea was oven chips, burger (one of those we made the other day) in a bap with peas and carrots. And delicious it was too. And then I went out for my evening walk.<\/p>\n

Jersey was even clearer tonight than it was last night and we had something of a light show. With the clouds higher in the sky over there (it was cloudless here) the glow in the sky was beautiful.<\/p>\n

So now I’m going to try for another early night. And I hope thzt I can have a better night’s sleep. I’m definitely not feeling up to anything right now.<\/p>\n

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