Sailing on Sumara

We are in Norway and we were racing, me Alasdair, Daddy and Alexis onthe Good Ship Sumara. We were racing against Colin Archers, if you want, I can write down the story.

Colin Archer was an English man, all the fisher men got sunk in their boats because of the thunder storms. Colin Archer was sad because all the fisher men had died, so he invented a massive strong strong boat, that could never break. Look at this picture, it is one of the Colin Archers. Colin Archer is dead now, it was over a hundred years ago now. This is the end of the story.

We were racing at the Wooden Boat Festival in Risor at the side of the harbour in Norway. The water came onto the boat because Sumara is so thin, I was down below and the port hole was covered in water, Alexis got wet by the water as it got even higher. We raced really well and came third! Alasdair won a jacket as his prize and I had six puddings that evening!

By Jacobus Halsall

I miss Dylan, Luke and all my friends.

Sailing in Norway

I went to the wooden boat festival in Risor. Alexis and Alasdair with Jacobus made a map of where Brimble will be sailing, Mummy is going to make it into a flag to fly from Brimble.

I was left on my own to go sailing with Daddy and his friend Gordon, Jacobus and Mummy drove to Oslo to try and get us an American visa. It was very very windy, so the waves were very very high. I went to the front of the boat (it is called the bow) you go higher, it is really fun. It makes you go higher because the waves go underneath you and bobbing you up in the air. At last we got to a lovely place called Lngyor on the south coast of Norway and it was not really like a town because there was the sea between the houses!




On our second day we saw great big dolphins and some were jumping in the air, I felt so happy when I saw them becasue I had never seen them before. The dolphins were grey. I went to one of my friend's cottages on the coast, it was a white wooden painted little cottage and it looked really pretty, we had a barbeque there and I left Brimble and stayed ashore for the night.



Mummy collected me from a small town where we said goodbye to Daddy and Brimble becasuse I will not see them until we meet up in either Spain or England.

By Ella