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OOROO1 - Preparations and a Wild Night



So with 4 hours to go, Las Palmas has really turned on some weather. 40 knot winds over night and 38 knots this morning with rain and 4m waves. The start has been postponed 18 hours. Storm sail was delivered during the week which should allow us to sail overnight without changing sails. We are all provisioned up now with the last minute fruit and vegies delivered yesterday. All washed and dried on the trampoline in record time between squalls to get rid of the . We now have a stork of bananas hanging / swinging off the back of the boat with about 80 bananas along with a stack of onions and all our carrots wrapped in foil. After living on the boat for 10 days we have our sea legs but Jeno and Tess started Travacarm yesterday and are hoping for the best (but expecting to be hanging over the side of the boat for a while). We will be on 3 hour shifts during the night watching out for ships, whales, floating objects, squalls and aliens !! We came third in the rock art competition. Prize was a platter of different meats and cheeses. Just what we don’t need with full fridges but the boys will devour it. Yellow Brick has been installed so should be able to track us once we actually start.

All well on board. No weight loss has occurred yet but we are alcohol free for the whole time at sea so here’s hoping .



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