BEAR GRYLLS MISSION IMPOSSIBLE

What is it with Bear Grylls and me? Every time I get on a boat with him we get beaten up. I know the bloke’s an extreme adventurer and a massive boat fan but couldn’t we just go for a quick blast in some nice calm water, shoot the breeze, share a few beers and come home dry at the end of it? Apparently not.

My first experience of boating with Bear was piling into the teeth of Force 9 gale to test the rough weather handling of an open RIB prior to his North Atlantic crossing, the second was punching through a tidal race known as the Bitches of Ramsey Sound, and the third was meant to be a straightforward sea trial of an amphibious boat to see if it would be suitable for ferrying his family to and from their island off the coast of North Wales. The latter was all going smoothly right up until we nose-dived into the back of a wave sending a wall of green water crashing through the windscreen. Yet again we ended up limping back to port with water