A close call! On this day, 23rd March 2020, Wye Invader Two returned to Sharpness at 5pm, after escorting Innisfree (now re-named NutCracker) to Bristol via Portishead. That night at 7.00pm Prime Minister Boris Johnson, ordered the first UK lockdown. Had Wye Invader Two missed the tides that day or been delayed, she and the crew would have been forced to stay onboard in Portishead Marina, until the 10th of May. See the video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndUajz2OnQQ or read the skippers log in full
https://www.wyeinvader.uk/wi2/bristol2020/By coincidence, 23rd March in 1989 was the day the original 38 metre, 230 tonne Wye Invader left Penzance on the start of her journey to Hereford, the story of that is told here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9LMtTCZdLE