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Domini - The First Post



Hello Boatbloggers® 

This is our first blog on the Official ARC website, so apologies to our Boatblog® fan if he has read all this before. But if I'm being really honest I'm just checking to see if this uploads properly. So dear reader, if you are looking at this, it means that my computer skills have improved enormously, but I'm afraid you are little more than a guinea pig.  And if this is your first taste of The Boatblog, and you like what you see, please feel free to go to www.boatblog.com to catch up on any back issues that you may have missed. But for all future editions, make sure you bookmark this site now.

We're just a few days away till we cast off our lines and start the crossing, so it's all getting a bit hectic here in Las Palmas.  Not only have we been crazy busy preparing the boat and doing all the provisioning, there have been safety gear checks, rigging checks, and a hundred and one other things. Not to mention all the lectures telling us what to do in the unlikely event that the boat capsizes, the mast falls over, the keel falls off, or we get attacked by a whale. 

And then there's the parties! Now they really are dangerous.

But not as dangerous as going into the chandlery with your credit card. That's positively suicidal.

(BTW - TOP INSIDER TRADING TIP. Buy shares in Rolnautic - the local chandlery. Do it each year. Just for the two weeks leading up to the departure of the ARC. Then SELL!  You'll be a millionaire in two years. Guaranteed.) 

Ju is proud to say that he was The Official Standard Bearer representing Great Britain at the Opening Ceremony of the ARC.

The selection process was rigourous and gruelling and based on one of three things.

1)     Best Sailor

2)     Best Looking Skipper

3)     First PersonTo Put His Name On The List.

It's hard to be sure, but I'm pretty certain it was one of the first two.

That's all for now Boatbloggers ® . Or "Avast," as we sailors say.

 Cap'n Ju & Lyn the Cru


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