Occupying the island platform outside Kingsnorth. © Kristian Buus/ Greenpeace.
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Pete is a volunteer deckhand who somehow finds the time to write blogs.
Tuesday 28th: Flags, canoes and a heap of equipment are ready in the hold. Inflatable boats are being checked and hatches secured.
Everyone is 100 per cent dedicated, working through every detail. I doubt I'll sleep much tonight.
Wednesday 29th: Adrenalin pumping, we cast off from Southend pier. There's time to calm down, have a cup of tea - time for a bite to eat too.
We reach Kingsnorth power station loading jetty, a police launch is ready to block us landing.
Canoes go in.
As we come close, the launch moves to intercept, but from nowhere, a small sailing catamaran appears across their bows, with "No new coal" on its sail. Power must give way to sail.
I'm at the stern and I see the bow has a line around a pillar supporting the jetty. We manage to get a line to one of our small inflatable boats but it cannot manouevre. Eventually we are hauling it back in.
The police launch pushes past our inflatable and cuts the line.
Canoes appear, line goes back out. They pick it up and paddle heroically between the ship and under the jetty to loop around the pillar. We're on - and winching ourselves in towards the jetty.
I help unfurl a big yellow banner: 'kick start clean energy'. Canoes protect our lines. John negotiates with an Eon representative. They won't let us hold our little ceremony?!
Suddenly, 30 volunteers appear from inside the Warrior, all carrying flags, and stream out onto the quay. They get about 30 yards and are stopped. The ceremony is held there.
