We made it over to Whitehaven in Cumbia from the Isle of Man and we looked at The Rum Story (link below) which tells the story of Whitehaven, Antigua, rum and profits made on the slave trade.

http://www.saltylass.co.uk/a-rum-stor...

The weather played merry havoc with us and we left Whitehaven in heavy, rolly seas with a westerly fetch when we wanted to go south. When we finally arrived at Liverpool the weather turned from calm, pleasant weather to a Force 7 gusting 8 so we had an unpleasant night waiting for the lock gate to open

The Rum Story - The dark spirit of Whitehaven
https://www.rumstory.co.uk/


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so Gator brewery I and we are gonna find

out all about wrong and it's not there a

no do that again tick to go we are going

to find out about Rome and guess what

it's driven straight I can drink it

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one of the more intriguing features of

being in the crow's nest is it has these

things with them pointing out directions

to various places in the world 10 oh

I've got the foggiest clue

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it's thrills rate I can drink it very

well look at this are you she reminds me

down here down into the vaults those

drops of light no proper volt something

proper all bombers I have to say it's

most unusual museums here I've been on

and sometime well and you've got to

bring your own light oh yeah there's the

walls mmm

one thing that quickly became apparent

was that the rum industry was built on

the back of slaves to its credit the

wrong story exhibits did not shy away

from this yes and date

this is represents the inside of a slave

ship and shows you sort of conditions

people were transported in and I've ever

took anything to convince you that

slavery is not complete that are wrong a

visit to the wrong story might not be a

bad place to start this is an actual

document from a slave plantation I mean

these are the names of actual people

you're sold by cargo

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laughter the poundage trafalgar Horatio

Nelson was famous for being in bound in

a cask of Navy rum so they could bring

his body back I don't know it was a cask

of Jefferson's whitehaven drummer and

out so then Gaynor where are where are

we and what are we about to do favor

have we're actually contemplating doing

the entire journey all the way to

Liverpool because the weather is such

that we basically go for it now oh we're

going anywhere

yeah so busy we've got one day yeah of

moderate weather to do a 12 or 15 hour

passage yeah we've got a pot we have got

a plan that we were gonna sort of like

stop Ireland do some other stuff just

ain't gonna happen

you've got to go with the weather and

and that's the way it works around there

yep the weather dictates and it's one

o'clock in the morning at the minutes

roughly yeah now we've got a prepper

boat in the dark one in the morning yeah

we've gotta go out through a sea lock

yep we got to get rind a contrary head

yep and then we got to go south for

about 60 miles and avoid gas fields and

lobster pots just in case say I know

we've got some night hours back under

our belt but my god do we have to go for

so many well you're not going to get

that many night hours son right now

summarize in four hours

yeah yep so at least we don't have to do

passage in the dark no get to see my

favorite time of the day sunrise

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I don't know if you can hear that but

that is the sound of our propeller going

round while we're under sail this is why

some people put a generator on the

propeller so that when they are

physically sailing they're at least

making electricity but you can just hear

it

and it's going around quite a bit to be

honest Ferb has just put the engine in

Reverse and it is stopped so if that's a

little trick if you want it to were

stopped just put it in reverse this

morning Bev and I left

Whitehaven the crack of dawn is all I

can say for it no it was actually free

crack anyway we left because it was the

only weather window we had and we had to

leave firm whitehaven it shot the Seas

it was that bad the bevhunt attack with

the engine on because we needed to go

south but we had to go with it with the

way the waves were going and it was just

ridiculous but we were we both of us

were really really scared because with

the weather predictions were wrong what

if the day had not calmed down and we'd

been out there for hours you know we had

to go out in fact in conditions that

were a bit worse than we wanted because

as we went south and as we go south the

weather conditions calm now luckily the

weather forecasters actually gone with

the truth but honest to goodness that

doesn't stop here having EBG B's and as

for a stress-free lifestyle this is not

it

I have had my stress levels through

Rufus mornin luckily we're now on a

karma patch

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it's my fault I decided to call this

passage and wrong journey I have had

gale force 8 and we've been on a more in

and talk about rock and roll very very

unpleasant but hopefully the lock is now

open

I'm going to be able to go in

you