Thursday 29 October 2009

Our final sail

At 0900 tomorrow, Alex and myself will leave our home port of Gosport and head towards the French port of La Havre for the start of the Transat Jacques Vabre - we will also have the company of a French journalist and a photographer.
We have all are spares, sails, food and clothes for the race stowed onboard and the boat is now set up in full race mode. This will be the last opportunity that we will get to sail the boat before the start. We have compiled a list of things that we need to check and manoeuvres that we need to practice before we arrive so it will be busy...

A year has passed but the collision with the French fishing boat out side of the harbour for the start of the Vendee globe is still fresh in our minds and think it will be for a long time. Hence for that reason we both decided that an arrival in daylight would reduce any bad luck .

For me now it’s time to pack my bags and lock up my house, as long as all goes well I won’t be back here until the middle of December.
Thinking about it that means that Alex and myself will spend every day for the next six weeks together, I am sure that this will bring testing and happy times for both of us , but that’s all part of offshore racing.

Ross