GRIN + BEAR IT
I should have known better than to accept another sea trial invitation from Bear Grylls. The last time I made that mistake we ended up bashing our way into the teeth of a Force 9 gale in an open RIB. At least he had good reason to test the heavy weather handling of that boat – six weeks later he and his crew took it across the Atlantic via the Arctic Circle.
This time around things should have been different. After all, this was a leisure boat that Bear was interested in buying for his own personal use. Admittedly, it had to be capable of ferrying him and his family across a short stretch of the Irish sea to their private island off the Welsh coast, but how rough can it be at this time of year? Pretty rough, as it happens, but we’ll get to that in a minute. First I need to explain what I’m doing here.
ISLAND LIFE
It turns out that when Bear isn’t dangling off a rope half way up a mountain with the leaders of the free world (both Barack Obama and Narenda Modi have appeared on his series), he likes to chill out with his wife and three kids on the remote island holiday home they bought some 20
