Having been nominated as chief chef, nurse, techie, green grocer and rationer I thought it would only be appropriate that I took the opportunity to test that the blog system was working while we are still on dry land.
We have now been in Las Palmas for 10 days during which we have provisioned, prepared and partied hard. It's been a long slog and everyone is exhausted but now terribly excited about our imminent departure tomorrow (though after a test sail yesterday when all of us felt decidedly queasy, even Daddy seemed to wonder what the hell we were doing!). After the arrival of Nick Blandy at the beginning of last week, followed by Roger Hicks a few days later, the crew is now complete and it seems there is no escape!
An anxious 24 hrs on Thursday conincided with Daddy's birthday, where the genoa ripped, genoa rigging needed to be glued back together and the sat phone blew up, fingers crossed, we are now almost ready to set sail.
Hope you'll follow us online over the next few weeks. We'll be in touch soon, Annabel x