From Paw Power to Horse Power

With all the rowing practice I had, I'm sure you won't be surprised to hear that I won the rowing regatta. I got a great treat as my prize. The lead crew let me have a go in their rib, which had an outboard with some serious horse power - or so it seemed to me. It certainly seemed very fast compared to rowing speed. Here I am waiting to ferry the lead crew back to their boat before taking a spin round the bay.


I had to be careful not to create too much wash when I was in the area where George & Yorkie were Croc sailing as I wouldn't have wanted to knock them out of their Croc.

But of course, we were really on holiday to sail, so we wasted no time in getting back to some sailing. As always there were a lot of jobs for me to do. I particularly like working the winches as they make sailing quite a big boat possible even for a bear of my size. Here I am preparing to loose the tension from the anchor rope as we were about to depart.


Hauling up the anchor from the seabed wasn't quite so much fun though. It was very heavy and my fur got very wet and muddy, so I had to have some help from my minders. While I was wet and muddy I thought it would be a good time to practice the bear overboard drill. I would leap overboard and get clean, and my crew could practice rescuing me. As I'm currently writing this entry you can tell that they did pretty well and I was quickly rescued. In fact I could have done with a bit more time in the water as the Ionian sea is so clean and warm. Sadly everyone was too busy doing their part in the drill for any photos to be taken.

Lots of love, Eddie & the crew of Spetses xxx