0:00:03 > 0:00:06The sea is a leveller.
0:00:06 > 0:00:09An unpredictable element.
0:00:11 > 0:00:14If you weren't afraid of the sea, you'd be a fool.
0:00:14 > 0:00:17If this gets considerably bigger, we're going back.
0:00:17 > 0:00:22I'm Timothy Spall, and when I'm not working as an actor,
0:00:22 > 0:00:26I'm taking on the sea.
0:00:26 > 0:00:28In a barge.
0:00:31 > 0:00:35Every trip we do, I get quite nervous about it,
0:00:35 > 0:00:36because I've never had a lesson.
0:00:36 > 0:00:40I've learned it all from kids' books.
0:00:40 > 0:00:44Learn to Navigate - An Introduction For All Ages.
0:00:44 > 0:00:46That's how I'm learning how to go round Britain.
0:00:52 > 0:00:55I'm the captain, and my wife Shane is first mate.
0:00:57 > 0:00:59We don't always know what we're doing,
0:00:59 > 0:01:01or how we're going to get there,
0:01:01 > 0:01:04but together we're exploring our own country.
0:01:04 > 0:01:07One port at a time.
0:01:07 > 0:01:11This kind of boating is the glory ship, you know?
0:01:11 > 0:01:14It's not very dramatic, but look at it. I mean,
0:01:14 > 0:01:17the sea is free, you know, it belongs to us,
0:01:17 > 0:01:20this is where the cobwebs get blown away.
0:01:20 > 0:01:28# Somewhere at sea A liner is somewhere at sea... #
0:01:28 > 0:01:34# Bringing to me A traveller who will build
0:01:34 > 0:01:38# My life anew... #
0:01:38 > 0:01:42There's nothing better, I'm telling you, than discovering
0:01:42 > 0:01:45your own country by sea.
0:01:54 > 0:01:59It all started when I was trying not to die.
0:01:59 > 0:02:03It was 1996 and I was seriously ill, dealing with leukaemia.
0:02:04 > 0:02:06I started reading boating magazines.
0:02:06 > 0:02:11And I said to Shane, "If and when I get over this, darling,
0:02:11 > 0:02:13"we're going to get two things.
0:02:13 > 0:02:16"We're going to get a Rolls Royce, and a boat."
0:02:16 > 0:02:19So, as soon as I was out of jail, out of the hospital, we went and got
0:02:19 > 0:02:24this electric-blue Rolls Royce that broke down every five minutes
0:02:24 > 0:02:26and a small narrow boat.
0:02:27 > 0:02:31For eight years, our narrow boat was our second home.
0:02:31 > 0:02:35We travelled the canals and inland waterways of Britain,
0:02:35 > 0:02:37getting used to life on the water.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40When we first started narrow-boating,
0:02:40 > 0:02:43I fell in once just trying to push it off.
0:02:43 > 0:02:48Then I fell in Oxford canal, fell in the Thames.
0:02:48 > 0:02:50So we did quite a lot of the waterways,
0:02:50 > 0:02:53but I did start to feel the call of the sea.
0:02:56 > 0:03:01We found a specialist boat builder who would make us a barge that was capable of going on the sea.
0:03:03 > 0:03:06And one that was big enough to live in, because this would be our home.
0:03:10 > 0:03:14Everything, even the furniture, is handmade and custom-built.
0:03:14 > 0:03:16Give the owl a wash.
0:03:17 > 0:03:21The Princess Matilda is named after our granddaughter.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26- Do you want sardines, Timmy?- Naah.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29We spend all of our spare time here.
0:03:29 > 0:03:32It's our home, that's what it is. Wherever we go, we're at home.
0:03:32 > 0:03:38- There you go. - The life of the idiot mariner!
0:03:41 > 0:03:45Four years ago, Shane and I set off from London
0:03:45 > 0:03:47to navigate our way around Britain.
0:03:47 > 0:03:51So far, we've got as far as Cornwall.
0:03:57 > 0:04:00Let's be clear, this trip is not about speed.
0:04:00 > 0:04:02Well, it can't be in this boat.
0:04:06 > 0:04:12My plan is to navigate 250 miles around Cornwall, Devon and Somerset
0:04:12 > 0:04:15and up into Wales, before winter.
0:04:18 > 0:04:22Most of the towns we visit, we've never been to before,
0:04:22 > 0:04:26so when I get there, I feel like Marco Polo.
0:04:26 > 0:04:28In a barge.
0:04:32 > 0:04:35We begin this leg in the Cornish port of Fowey,
0:04:35 > 0:04:39a town that's been the start of many an adventure.
0:04:46 > 0:04:49Medieval galleons sailed into battle from here.
0:04:49 > 0:04:53Thousands of US troops launched from Fowey on D-day.
0:04:53 > 0:04:57And today, it's Princess Matilda
0:04:57 > 0:04:59and her merry crew.
0:04:59 > 0:05:0137 point...
0:05:01 > 0:05:04sod off. Erm...
0:05:04 > 0:05:06Like all the captains before me,
0:05:06 > 0:05:09I go nowhere until I've plotted my course.
0:05:09 > 0:05:11Are you interested in this?
0:05:11 > 0:05:14- No.- You're not interested in the slightest.- No, I'm not.
0:05:14 > 0:05:17But what she lacks in interest she makes up in confidence,
0:05:17 > 0:05:19because she thinks I know what I'm doing.
0:05:19 > 0:05:24I suppose I must know something, because we've managed to get here.
0:05:24 > 0:05:27Of course I trust you, you're my husband.
0:05:27 > 0:05:29What difference does that make?
0:05:29 > 0:05:31I can still be an idiot.
0:05:31 > 0:05:35Shane's trust is comforting. It has to be -
0:05:35 > 0:05:40we're only 30 miles away from a notoriously dangerous journey,
0:05:40 > 0:05:43going around Lizard Point.
0:05:47 > 0:05:50It's famous for eating boats.
0:05:50 > 0:05:52Eating them and spitting them out.
0:05:54 > 0:05:58I read this article about somebody tried to cross down here
0:05:58 > 0:06:00when it was a bit windy, and they nearly capsized.
0:06:00 > 0:06:02Oh, we'll be fine.
0:06:02 > 0:06:05- Oh, yeah? Pfff!- Yes, we will.
0:06:05 > 0:06:08Today I'm going to get us down to
0:06:08 > 0:06:13Falmouth, where I want to leave Matilda moored up for six weeks
0:06:13 > 0:06:15while I go off to shoot a film.
0:06:15 > 0:06:18I hope to take on Lizard Point when I return in the height of summer.
0:06:24 > 0:06:27Now, if I can only get the hang of my instruments.
0:06:27 > 0:06:30This bloody thing, which is the sat nav, which is very helpful,
0:06:30 > 0:06:32but every time I've left it for a week,
0:06:32 > 0:06:36I can't remember how to work it. But I have put a route in it,
0:06:36 > 0:06:40in this map, if you look carefully, it's going across land!
0:06:45 > 0:06:47Matilda is no speedboat.
0:06:47 > 0:06:50It will take us up to six hours to get to get to Falmouth.
0:06:52 > 0:06:55One of the things I've learnt is you never know
0:06:55 > 0:06:58what it's going to be like when you get out there, at sea.
0:06:58 > 0:07:02The visibility is, I'd say this was poor to moderate.
0:07:05 > 0:07:08Looks like there's a patch of fog here, look.
0:07:09 > 0:07:12Something eerie about a flat sea, isn't there?
0:07:21 > 0:07:25This, this is unbelievable. I've never known a sea as flat as this.
0:07:27 > 0:07:30The sky and the sea are the same colour.
0:07:32 > 0:07:34It's like being in a dreamscape of some kind.
0:07:34 > 0:07:37And the sea is absolutely flat calm,
0:07:37 > 0:07:40like a mirror.
0:07:40 > 0:07:44I'm on dolphin watch, and the visibility's bad as well,
0:07:44 > 0:07:47so you've got to keep your eyes peeled, so we don't crash.
0:07:47 > 0:07:50But he won't crash, though.
0:07:56 > 0:08:03I love the solitude of going to sea. But this time, we're not alone.
0:08:03 > 0:08:05It's me, Shane...
0:08:05 > 0:08:08and a bloody great battleship.
0:08:12 > 0:08:15It's going at a fair old speed. Getting closer by the second.
0:08:15 > 0:08:17VOICES COME THROUGH RADIO
0:08:17 > 0:08:21I tune our radio into their channel, so I can work out what they're up to.
0:08:21 > 0:08:24I heard a foreign accent saying something about firing.
0:08:24 > 0:08:26But it might be, it says on the map,
0:08:26 > 0:08:29look here - Firing Practice Area.
0:08:33 > 0:08:36Just in case.
0:08:36 > 0:08:37Emergency rations.
0:08:39 > 0:08:42'We have a clear range.'
0:08:42 > 0:08:43A clear range?!
0:08:43 > 0:08:50We're over here, look! Just when I was saying things were getting dull.
0:08:50 > 0:08:52We're going to be blown out the water.
0:08:54 > 0:08:56Coo-ee! Woo-ooh!
0:08:58 > 0:09:00We're over here!
0:09:00 > 0:09:02Do you want a sandwich?
0:09:02 > 0:09:05Ham?
0:09:05 > 0:09:06Do you want a sandwich?
0:09:07 > 0:09:10And then...
0:09:10 > 0:09:13the battleship turns around and clears off.
0:09:15 > 0:09:19I think it's against military policy to pick off people in pleasure boats.
0:09:19 > 0:09:23But you never know. On a bad day...?
0:09:28 > 0:09:32Falmouth's industrial docks were built in the 1850s
0:09:32 > 0:09:35to export Cornwall's rich supply of iron and clay.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41Today, it also operates as a repair yard
0:09:41 > 0:09:43for tankers from all over the world.
0:09:44 > 0:09:48The thing about Cornwall, these beautiful places, that they do have
0:09:48 > 0:09:53the picturesqueness, but they also have a commercial function.
0:09:53 > 0:09:57But we're here for Falmouth's other thriving business, marinas.
0:10:01 > 0:10:03They're a sort of gated community
0:10:03 > 0:10:06with pontoons and easy access to town.
0:10:06 > 0:10:11The ideal place to leave Matilda for the next six weeks.
0:10:11 > 0:10:15If I can get through all these bloody yachts.
0:10:15 > 0:10:20We're now in the middle of a sort of port equivalent of a cobbled street,
0:10:20 > 0:10:22it seems here, so I'd better...
0:10:22 > 0:10:27Oh! That was a bit close! I'd better keep concentrating.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31And then we're going to go and try find a marina.
0:10:31 > 0:10:33There is one up the end here.
0:10:35 > 0:10:38I haven't booked ahead. I don't think I need to.
0:10:38 > 0:10:41I'm sure Lady Luck will be kind to us.
0:10:41 > 0:10:43Hi, Falmouth Marina, this is Princess Matilda.
0:10:43 > 0:10:47We're hoping that you might have a berth for us tonight?
0:10:47 > 0:10:50We're a 52-foot Dutch barge, over.
0:10:51 > 0:10:55'Princess Matilda, um, no, I'm afraid we don't.
0:10:55 > 0:10:59'We don't have anything for a boat of that size, over.'
0:10:59 > 0:11:02You really don't have anywhere at all, over?
0:11:04 > 0:11:07'No. If we did I'd say so, because we'd like to get you in, over.'
0:11:10 > 0:11:13Matilda is almost twice the length of a typical yacht,
0:11:13 > 0:11:17but as Falmouth has three marinas, our luck may still be in.
0:11:17 > 0:11:23Hi, we're looking for a mooring for a 52-foot barge tonight, over.
0:11:23 > 0:11:26'Yeah, no, I'm sorry, Princess Matilda,
0:11:26 > 0:11:28'I'm afraid we've got nothing at all, over.'
0:11:28 > 0:11:31Oh, Port Pendennis. Thank you. Have you got any suggestions?
0:11:31 > 0:11:34They can't get us in Falmouth Marina, over.
0:11:34 > 0:11:39'Nowhere else, I think, is big enough for you. Over.'
0:11:39 > 0:11:42All right, we seem to be, we might be buggered. Um...
0:11:43 > 0:11:45Yeah, well so much for Lady Luck.
0:11:45 > 0:11:50There's no room at the inn for Princess Matilda.
0:11:50 > 0:11:53Hi, Harbour Radio. This is Princess Matilda.
0:11:53 > 0:11:55We've just arrived in Falmouth Harbour,
0:11:55 > 0:11:58and we're not having much luck in getting a berth tonight,
0:11:58 > 0:12:00either in Pendennis or Falmouth Marina.
0:12:00 > 0:12:03Have you got any suggestions for us? Over.
0:12:05 > 0:12:09'All we'll be able to offer you, I'm afraid, is one of the green buoys,
0:12:09 > 0:12:14'the green moorings that are off the end of the pier.'
0:12:14 > 0:12:17- That's the pier there. - 'Any of the green ones.'
0:12:18 > 0:12:19This is going to be fun, darling.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22This IS going to be fun, isn't it?
0:12:23 > 0:12:25If a marina is a gated community,
0:12:25 > 0:12:30we're about to moor up in the port equivalent of a campsite.
0:12:33 > 0:12:36We're going to put that rope through that 'ole there,
0:12:36 > 0:12:38which is a bit like threading a needle.
0:12:43 > 0:12:47We always argue when we do this. He just comes and gets involved.
0:12:49 > 0:12:51I've got me stick.
0:12:53 > 0:12:57No, it's all right. Don't break your back, love.
0:12:59 > 0:13:01- It's too heavy. - All right. Let it go, then.
0:13:01 > 0:13:03All right. Hang on.
0:13:03 > 0:13:05If it starts pulling...
0:13:05 > 0:13:08No, hang on a minute! If it starts pulling, let it go.
0:13:10 > 0:13:13Aren't we supposed to put it through that hole?
0:13:13 > 0:13:16We're attached. We're on now. We're on.
0:13:16 > 0:13:18You did it.
0:13:18 > 0:13:20- No, you did it.- You did it.
0:13:20 > 0:13:22- You did it.- I didn't, you did it.
0:13:22 > 0:13:24You did it!
0:13:32 > 0:13:35There are no more marinas before the Lizard,
0:13:35 > 0:13:40and we can't leave Matilda out here with the tankers for six weeks.
0:13:40 > 0:13:43But Falmouth isn't all industry.
0:13:49 > 0:13:53The next day, we take Matilda across Falmouth Bay
0:13:53 > 0:13:56to a place called Helford River.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59The Helford is not really a river,
0:13:59 > 0:14:02it's a flooded valley with several creeks.
0:14:02 > 0:14:05It offers natural protection from the sea,
0:14:05 > 0:14:08which is probably what attracted the bands of pirates
0:14:08 > 0:14:10that used to operate here.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18Tucked into the banks of the Helford are small villages.
0:14:18 > 0:14:22Many are easier to reach by boat than car.
0:14:26 > 0:14:29Nowadays, most of these places are holiday homes.
0:14:31 > 0:14:34But we've brought our holiday home with us.
0:14:39 > 0:14:41It may not have the marina we wanted,
0:14:41 > 0:14:45but it's a place fit for our Princess.
0:14:47 > 0:14:50And it comes with its very own pearls.
0:14:50 > 0:14:52When the tide goes out here, it comes right out to mud,
0:14:52 > 0:14:57and every bit of mud is absolutely covered in oysters.
0:15:00 > 0:15:03And there's the oyster boat coming back there,
0:15:03 > 0:15:06he's obviously got his oysters.
0:15:06 > 0:15:08If I liked oysters, I'd be out there with me knife.
0:15:08 > 0:15:11But I don't particularly like them, and anyway,
0:15:11 > 0:15:12I think they belong to him.
0:15:17 > 0:15:23We're going to leave Matilda here while I go off to work on a film.
0:15:23 > 0:15:26When we return it'll be the height of summer,
0:15:26 > 0:15:28a prime time to face the Lizard.
0:15:42 > 0:15:45This is the Helford River, one of the most beautiful rivers
0:15:45 > 0:15:48in Cornwall, and we're calling it the river of entrapment.
0:15:48 > 0:15:51Because we can't get out of here.
0:15:55 > 0:16:00I've returned from filming during one of the worst summers on record.
0:16:00 > 0:16:04Certainly not the weather to go round Lizard Point.
0:16:04 > 0:16:06Not for a barge.
0:16:06 > 0:16:09In one of these books here, it says, "If in doubt, don't go."
0:16:09 > 0:16:11Now that's got to be, you know,
0:16:11 > 0:16:14the best possible advice you could ever take.
0:16:14 > 0:16:18I don't want to be in 10ft waves in this.
0:16:18 > 0:16:20Because this'll be going like that.
0:16:22 > 0:16:25You know, I've got some wine, I've got some decent wine!
0:16:25 > 0:16:27I don't want to lose it.
0:16:34 > 0:16:38- I ain't that stupid, I'm not going round there.- No, it's our home.
0:16:38 > 0:16:40Of course we're not going to go round there.
0:16:48 > 0:16:50The bad weather sets in for weeks.
0:16:50 > 0:16:53VOICE COMES THROUGH RADIO
0:16:53 > 0:16:54I'm glued to the weather report,
0:16:54 > 0:17:00because if it carries on like this, we'll be stuck here for winter.
0:17:01 > 0:17:03Sea - moderate or rough,
0:17:03 > 0:17:06so thank you very much, we ain't going out there.
0:17:06 > 0:17:10- Oh, no! - And wind - force five to seven.
0:17:10 > 0:17:15These things tell you what a force one is - "Wind, light airs, easy ripples.
0:17:15 > 0:17:19"Three - gentle breeze, crests begin to break.
0:17:19 > 0:17:24"Force six - strong breeze, large waves, extensive white crests.
0:17:24 > 0:17:27"Force seven - sea heaps up in waves,
0:17:27 > 0:17:30"breaking white foam in streaks.
0:17:30 > 0:17:34"Force eight! Moderate high waves, spindrift white foam!
0:17:34 > 0:17:38"Ten! Very high breaking waves,
0:17:38 > 0:17:40"dense foam streaks!"
0:17:41 > 0:17:44You don't want to be in anything other than a bloody five, mate.
0:17:46 > 0:17:49It's a wonderful place to be trapped.
0:17:49 > 0:17:53But we're beginning to get a bit Helford-River crazy.
0:17:53 > 0:17:55SHANE LAUGHS
0:17:55 > 0:17:57You are funny.
0:18:02 > 0:18:06- Cor blimey, woman, I've done it 1,000 times!- It's ridiculous!
0:18:06 > 0:18:11One thing the weather can't stop us doing is exploring on land.
0:18:15 > 0:18:18There's a regatta in Helford Village,
0:18:18 > 0:18:20and as our barge is going nowhere fast,
0:18:20 > 0:18:23we thought we'd go and see some people who, like us,
0:18:23 > 0:18:25enjoy messing about in boats.
0:18:32 > 0:18:38You couldn't get more quintessentially British or English than a regatta, you know.
0:18:38 > 0:18:42Fifth prize is for the goose, which is orange 31.
0:18:43 > 0:18:48'It's people who live by water, who just get pissed and have rowing competitions,
0:18:48 > 0:18:53'and dress up like twits and have a good time and the community comes together.'
0:18:53 > 0:18:55There's a banana now, a banana.
0:18:55 > 0:18:59'So it's a very British way of carrying on.'
0:18:59 > 0:19:01- Are you racing today, you two?- Yeah.
0:19:01 > 0:19:06- What are you doing? - YOU have been on TV.
0:19:06 > 0:19:08That's what I do for a living.
0:19:08 > 0:19:10- And YOU are going to go in a boat. - Yes.
0:19:10 > 0:19:12- In a minute.- Are you going to win?
0:19:17 > 0:19:19Each town along the river has its very own regatta,
0:19:19 > 0:19:23but the Helford Village Regatta is the final one of the season.
0:19:23 > 0:19:27So they try to end the summer in style.
0:19:29 > 0:19:33Look! It's a spatchcock pig!
0:19:33 > 0:19:37- I can't bear it. - I can, it makes me starving.
0:19:37 > 0:19:39Stop it, Timmy, I'm not going to do that washing now.
0:19:39 > 0:19:43Soon, Helford's population will halve.
0:19:43 > 0:19:47That's when people leave their holiday homes to go back to work.
0:19:47 > 0:19:51So today is all about having a good time.
0:19:51 > 0:19:53There goes the Royal Navy.
0:19:53 > 0:19:58I think they fully intend to sink, don't they?
0:19:59 > 0:20:02CHEERING
0:20:08 > 0:20:10I love Britain, I love it.
0:20:10 > 0:20:15I just think it's a fantastic, diverse microcosm of the world.
0:20:16 > 0:20:20It's absolutely...this is England at its best, isn't it?
0:20:44 > 0:20:47'The day after the regatta, it's like someone turned the light off.
0:20:47 > 0:20:51'And we felt like that we were left over from the party.
0:20:51 > 0:20:55'The party had finished and we were left over there and everyone else had gone home.'
0:20:59 > 0:21:03The wonderful thing about England, isn't it?
0:21:03 > 0:21:07How many different shades of grey there actually are in an English summer.
0:21:07 > 0:21:09I can count 28 up there.
0:21:13 > 0:21:15We're heading for a church called St Manacca
0:21:15 > 0:21:19that's famed for a fig tree growing out of its walls.
0:21:21 > 0:21:24The church has been here for over 800 years,
0:21:24 > 0:21:29and if the weather stays like this, we might be here for that long too.
0:21:29 > 0:21:32Oooh. Is it open?
0:21:32 > 0:21:34I don't know, where's the fig tree?
0:21:37 > 0:21:38Keep going, beep, beep.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46It's growing right out here, look.
0:21:46 > 0:21:48Good Lord!
0:21:48 > 0:21:51It's growing out the wall of the church. Here, look.
0:21:54 > 0:21:57At least eight inches in diameter.
0:21:57 > 0:21:59Wonderful.
0:22:04 > 0:22:05Sometimes on our journey,
0:22:05 > 0:22:09we stumble on places that have something special about them.
0:22:09 > 0:22:12Something that's hard to describe.
0:22:12 > 0:22:14Feel it,
0:22:14 > 0:22:17absolutely beautiful to touch.
0:22:18 > 0:22:22This really shouldn't be seen for public consumption.
0:22:36 > 0:22:38Lovely.
0:22:41 > 0:22:43Look at this.
0:22:49 > 0:22:54- Look at that roof. - Beautiful, the carving.
0:22:56 > 0:23:02It's such a beautiful place, and there's absolutely no-one around.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04It's like we've just found it.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07The first vicar of Manaccan
0:23:07 > 0:23:10was David de Sancta Beriana. Blimey, that's...
0:23:10 > 0:23:15William de Mongluthe, William de Trenewithe, those names are Norman.
0:23:15 > 0:23:16Yeah.
0:23:24 > 0:23:26Ooh! It's a bit lower than I thought.
0:23:26 > 0:23:29Oh, look. It's in Cornish.
0:23:29 > 0:23:33'I walk about and get on his nerves and talk and read things,
0:23:33 > 0:23:38'but Tim will always have quiet moments in church.
0:23:38 > 0:23:43'That's because, when he was very ill, he had an epiphany in a church.'
0:23:49 > 0:23:50I try and contact with
0:23:50 > 0:23:53a sense of peace or
0:23:53 > 0:23:58gratitude for surviving, and think and thank,
0:23:58 > 0:24:00and ask fate to be kind to me.
0:24:15 > 0:24:17- Turn out the lights.- I've done it.
0:24:22 > 0:24:25And sometimes, prayers are answered.
0:24:30 > 0:24:33The weather conditions, according to the Met Office
0:24:33 > 0:24:36and the coastguard report reckon it's really nice!
0:24:41 > 0:24:44Is it goodbye to the Helford today?
0:24:44 > 0:24:47Oh, I think so. I can feel it, I can feel it, yeah.
0:24:49 > 0:24:53The plan is that, I've worked out, without any advice,
0:24:53 > 0:24:56which is why I always get scared,
0:24:56 > 0:24:59that we should leave two hours after high tide.
0:25:00 > 0:25:02We're aiming for Newlyn,
0:25:02 > 0:25:07which means I'll have to navigate round the notorious Lizard Point.
0:25:07 > 0:25:09Right, this is when we come near the Lizard.
0:25:09 > 0:25:13It's become the bogeyman, like an ogre,
0:25:13 > 0:25:16a giant that used to frighten me, and make me lose sleep.
0:25:16 > 0:25:19The Lizard might be a dragon we cannot defeat.
0:25:20 > 0:25:24# Children, have you ever met the bogeyman before?
0:25:24 > 0:25:29# No, of course you haven't, for you're much too good, I'm sure
0:25:29 > 0:25:33# Don't you be afraid of him if he should visit you... #
0:25:34 > 0:25:38Hi, Mr Munson. It's Timothy Spall trying again.
0:25:38 > 0:25:43I was trying to call the Harbour Master at Newlyn to book a berth,
0:25:43 > 0:25:46but he's either not there or he's busy.
0:25:46 > 0:25:49- So, erm... - You'll have to call him on the radio.
0:25:49 > 0:25:52Yeah, we'll call him on the radio when we get there and he might say,
0:25:52 > 0:25:54"No, bugger off!" I hope not.
0:25:57 > 0:25:59Here we go. And may God be with us.
0:26:03 > 0:26:08Even though we've been trapped here for months, it's not easy to leave.
0:26:09 > 0:26:13I'm sad, I'm really sad. We've had such a lovely time.
0:26:13 > 0:26:17But I mean, it's so perfect, so beautiful,
0:26:17 > 0:26:19so lovely.
0:26:22 > 0:26:23I'm going to cry.
0:26:31 > 0:26:33Good luck, have a good journey.
0:26:33 > 0:26:35Ah, they're so sweet.
0:26:37 > 0:26:42Don't forget we arrived here mid-summer,
0:26:42 > 0:26:45so we've gone through a whole season on the Helford River.
0:26:49 > 0:26:51As beautiful as this place is, it's time to go.
0:26:51 > 0:26:54Beautiful sailing yachts, beautiful countryside.
0:26:55 > 0:26:58Terrifying sea!
0:27:02 > 0:27:04I'm nervous.
0:27:04 > 0:27:08I'm very nervous, actually. Quite scared.
0:27:08 > 0:27:11If I don't like it, we're coming back. It's supposed to be fun,
0:27:11 > 0:27:15it's an adventure, but it's supposed to be fun.
0:27:24 > 0:27:27This desire to go to sea and to do this adventure,
0:27:27 > 0:27:30to continue this adventure, is a compulsion.
0:27:32 > 0:27:35Falmouth Coastguard, Falmouth Coastguard.
0:27:35 > 0:27:38We're just leaving Helford River now
0:27:38 > 0:27:41and we are making our way to Newlyn, over.
0:27:43 > 0:27:47But I hope it's a compulsion that doesn't lead to my ultimate demise!
0:27:52 > 0:27:54Oooh! Oh, my God!
0:27:54 > 0:27:55We are actually navigating
0:27:55 > 0:27:58some of most dangerous seas in the world here.
0:28:00 > 0:28:01Cor, look at her wash!
0:28:01 > 0:28:05Actually, if you have any trouble, we can always call out the barge!
0:28:05 > 0:28:07It's wonderful.
0:28:07 > 0:28:10I can't bear it, look, those eyes!
0:28:10 > 0:28:15It's like a fantastic, loony conquest.
0:28:15 > 0:28:193,000 miles away is the piece next land.
0:28:19 > 0:28:22Err...America.
0:28:24 > 0:28:28They all think we're mad, but they're not stopping us.
0:28:28 > 0:28:35# Somewhere at sea A liner is somewhere at sea
0:28:35 > 0:28:39# Bringing to me a traveller
0:28:39 > 0:28:46# Who will build my life anew
0:28:46 > 0:28:50# He's out on the sea
0:28:50 > 0:28:54# Somewhere at sea. #