So when did you last put your house on a ship?

Because today, we drove our home onto a half sunken ship and left her there! The ship, Super Servant 3, is designed to be partly submerged so that yachts can be floated aboard, then divers place supports under the boats and the ship is raised up again, leaving the cargo high and dry.

All went smoothly, the loading was very well organised and professional, and we are now homeless. Ty Dewi is the tiny little boat in the middle of the third photo.

We've come to a nearby hotel for the night then it's onto a train for New York City in the morning. The adventure continues.

The kids (and us to some extent) are like those stories of natives brought back to Victorian England by explorers. We marvel at the wonders of the hotel room. More square fototage than our whole boat, two big soft double beds, a large TV, a ceiling so high that you don't hit your head on it and a strange rectangular white tub thing with two water outlets, we think you are meant to fill it with water and sit in it.

There is a coffee maker and Issie sat in wonder as the coffee dripped through into the jug. Ah, you see, this is why we go sailing, to make the small pleasures of life stand out in sharp relief when we can have them.