Our new mooring spot was right at the end of the channel into Tinnemans Shipyard.

Jeannie and I sat in the wheelhouse and watched as this behemoth – 110 metres long and with a beam of 12 metres negotiated the narrow opening (with no room for a straight-in approach) into the shipyard where we are now moored.

And then came straight at us.

Getting very, very close.

And then, even closer.

A bathroom break, you ask? See Part II