Very little chance of geting down to Sirenia for the last few weeks.

Time to bring her back home.

Saturday
Took the trailer to Robertson at Woodbridge and then went on down to Ramsholt.

Had a nice sail up river.
Had lunch and then got Sirenia onto the trailer.
Mast down and all strapped down.

Had a bit of a fun getting out of the boat yard with vehicles parked in difficult places.
Then away to the A14 and head for home.

Need to keep the speed under 50 when down hill or she starts snaking.

Just getting to the East Bury St Edmunds junction.
Down hill, right hand curve, lorry ruts in the inside lane.
Chatting away and the speed is 55ish.
Lorry ruts upset things and a big snaking session starts.
Towards the end of it I am looking out of my side window at Sirenia sliding sideways down the outside lane with smoke and sparks from both offside trailer wheels.
Here we go thinks I.
But luckily we slow to a halt in that configuration.
Wait for the bang as someone runs into us but it does not come.

Engine still running so I pull the rig straight.
Get out to have a look.
Some chap pulls alongside and asks if we are o.k.
Yes I think so.
We are just short of the on slip so I drag the rig over to the edge of that.

Police turn up after a few minutes.
Couldn't be more helpful.
We took a wheel of the near side and put it on the off side.
One tyre seemed a bit to flat.
One of the Coppers took it to a nearby garage at put some more air in it.
Once that was sorted the police suggested that we tow the boat to the next junction and then head for a Tesco car park off the roundabout.
This was achieved at 5 mph with a police car front and back on Blues.

The traffic Sargent driving the car at the back showed us back into a redundant bit of roadway and then came for a chat.
We agreed that we would need to fit new wheels before we went back on the road.
He left happy and wished us good luck in finding new wheels.

I was not at all happy to leave Sirenia there but had no option.
Came home. Had a stiff drink and went to bed.

Back to Bury on Sunday to have a look at her in daylight.
She was sitting at a funny angle on the trailer but no damage we could see on the hull.
The rudder frame was a bit bent and the rudder end of the tiller was smashed.
Could not see any impact marks on the rudder frame until I looked underneath it.
I recon that it had been sliding along the top of the central reservation crash barrier.

Went to see the manager of the Tesco store and told him that we could not move her until we had new wheels which would not be before Monday.
He said that was fine.
We unloaded all the most valuable gear into the Rang Rover and went home.

Went back to her this morning to find her still o.k.
Went to Anglia Trailer Center who could not have been more helpful.
Ended up with a new set of wheels and a much lighter wallet.

Wheels fitted and then a slow drive back home.

Sirenia is now tucked up safe and sound at home.