Hi all, well as I type this the boys are clanging around on the roof of the container above me pulling down the shade tent for the boat. We are packing everything into the container in preparation for tomorrows departure.

The last thing we will pack up is the boat itself as we still hope to get one last sail in today. The wind is forecast to blow up to 24 knots although the morning is glassy calm. I can hear the old, rickety wind vane starting to clatter outside so it seems that the wind is coming in now.

We are already reflecting on the past month and a half. A lot has been accomplished and I'm happy with the stage we are at. I will summarise it once we are totally done as we aint done yet. You know us... we always push it hard right to the last gasp.

I don't think we have missed one opportunity or made one bad weather call for this whole period. In fact we have pushed harder than perhaps ever before as the general sea worthiness of the new boat allows us to get out in rougher conditions and lower tides. We now sail in windier conditions on the lowest tides without issue and that opens a lot more sailing windows for us.

Righto, let's see what today brings... Come on Walvis... one more time please!

Cheers, Paul.