Ian Moore – Homesickness whilst training at Tor Point

Yeah, but it all hits us at some stage of another, at all times of life. At some point or other you’ll get homesick. Everybody does where you’ve just had enough of being pushed from pillar to post and spending more and more days at sea and being thrown around all over the place like a cork in a bottle.

But training itself, training down in Tor Point absolutely fantastic. I loved it, absolutely brilliant.

So, the first week was ‘beasting week’ which is where they would literally at 5 o’clock in the morning, they would come in, banging dustbin lids together.

You’d be out in your gym stuff and literally everybody was exactly the same, it was a T Shirt, a pair of shorts and a pair of plimsoles in the middle of winter basically, in November and we’d go out for a 2-3 mile run just to wake everybody up, get back, showers, a cold shower because the hot water took too long to actually come through the pipes, so everybody took a cold shower because we had to be changed within the next 15 minutes to go to breakfast. And then you’re all marched off to breakfast and start every day the same.

Makes a man of you apparently (laughs). Allegedly.