After being stranded for two nights ashore David Glenn eventually makes it back to Adele where preparations for the passage to South Georgia are underway

It’s Saturday morning and we’re still marooned in Stanley having spent a second night ashore. Anyone needing a hotel or restaurant guide to the world’s most southerly city just ask Jan-Eric and two others in the marooned party, Adele’s mate Mark Thirkettle and author Mark Chisnell, out here writing a book about the adventure, made is back aboard by rope ladder in a daring transfer yesterday evening.

Through the binoculars from the comfort of the Upland Goose’s dining room it looked like a tricky manoeuvre. Loaded with camera gear, including Jan-Eric’s, photographer Rick Tomlinson, myself and the three remaining members of the stranded party, decided that dinner ashore would be the more sensible option. Now it’s 0730 on Saturday 3 February and we are delighted to see that the waters of Stanley have returned to their dark Atlantic grey. At last we will be able to re-join Adele and the nod is we’re off tonight to South Georgia.